TY - JOUR KW - Biomedical Journal KW - Core competencies KW - Delphi KW - Editor role KW - Expert consensus KW - Scientific editor AU - David Moher AU - James Galipeau AU - Sabina Alam AU - Virginia Barbour AU - Kidist Bartolomeos AU - Patricia Baskin AU - Sally Bell-Syer AU - Kelly D. Cobey AU - Leighton Chan AU - Jocalyn Clark AU - Jonathan Deeks AU - Annette Flanagin AU - Paul Garner AU - Anne-Marie Glenny AU - Trish Groves AU - Kurinchi Gurusamy AU - Farrokh Habibzadeh AU - Stefanie Jewell-Thomas AU - Diane Kelsall AU - José Florencio Lapeña AU - Harriet MacLehose AU - Ana Marušić AU - Joanne E. McKenzie AU - Jay Shah AU - Larissa Shamseer AU - Sharon Straus AU - Peter Tugwell AU - Elizabeth Wager AU - Margaret Winker AU - Getu Zhaori 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. BT - BMC Medicine DA - 2017-09-11 DO - 10.1186/s12916-017-0927-0 IS - 1 LA - en N2 - 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. PY - 2017 EP - 167 ST - Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals T2 - BMC Medicine TI - Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0927-0 VL - 15 Y2 - 2026-04-27 SN - 1741-7015 ER -