BMJ  2006;332:565 (11 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7541.565-a

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CMAJ owner fails to guarantee editorial independence

Quebec

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The editorial autonomy of the CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), "is to an important degree illusory," says a highly critical commentary published last week. The commentary was produced by an ad hoc committee of the journal's editorial board following the firing of the journal's editor and deputy editor (BMJ 2006;332: 503, 4 Mar[Free Full Text]). Soon after the commentary was published the acting editor resigned after the association refused to accept a plan he drafted that was aimed at ensuring editorial independence.

In an early release published online on 28 February (www.cmaj.ca), the committee said that the association and its publishing company, CMA Holdings (CMAH), "must make a choice about what kind of publication it wants CMAJ to be." It said that the choice is between a publication that accepts as inviolable editors' responsible exercise of editorial independence and . . . [Full text of this article]

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