Recommendations and guidelines for creating scholarly biomedical journals: A scoping review

• Jeremy Y. Ng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jerng@ohri.ca

  Affiliation Centre for Journalology, Ottawa Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0031-5873

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• Kelly D. Cobey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Meta-Research and Open Science Program, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2797-1686

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• Saad Ahmed,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Valerie Chow,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Sharleen G. Maduranayagam,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Lucas J. Santoro,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3706-3043

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• Lindsey Sikora,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Sciences Library, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9715-8634

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• Ana Marusic,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health and Center for Evidence-based Medicine, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6272-0917

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• Daniel Shanahan,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation PLOS, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6588-7947

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• Randy Townsend,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations PLOS, San Francisco, California, United States of America, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-5505

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• Alan Ehrlich,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations EBSCO Information Services, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the UMASS Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Alfonso Iorio,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3331-8766

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• David Moher

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Journalology, Ottawa Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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