TY - JOUR AU - Moher, David AU - Galipeau, James AU - Alam, Sabina AU - Barbour, Virginia AU - Bartolomeos, Kidist AU - Baskin, Patricia AU - Bell-Syer, Sally AU - Cobey, Kelly D. AU - Chan, Leighton AU - Clark, Jocalyn AU - Deeks, Jonathan AU - Flanagin, Annette AU - Garner, Paul AU - Glenny, Anne-Marie AU - Groves, Trish AU - Gurusamy, Kurinchi AU - Habibzadeh, Farrokh AU - Jewell-Thomas, Stefanie AU - Kelsall, Diane AU - Lapeña, José Florencio AU - MacLehose, Harriet AU - Marusic, Ana AU - McKenzie, Joanne E. AU - Shah, Jay AU - Shamseer, Larissa AU - Straus, Sharon AU - Tugwell, Peter AU - Wager, Elizabeth AU - Winker, Margaret AU - Zhaori, Getu PY - 2017 DA - 2017/09/11 TI - Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement JO - BMC Medicine SP - 167 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Scientific editors are responsible for deciding which articles to publish in their journals. However, we have not found documentation of their required knowledge, skills, and characteristics, or the existence of any formal core competencies for this role. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0927-0 DO - 10.1186/s12916-017-0927-0 ID - Moher2017 ER -