Good Publication Practice
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This branch covers Good Publication Practice for company-sponsored research publications, divided into its rationale and development, edition-specific guidance, the medical writer’s role, process documentation and the related MPIP recommendations. It leaves publication strategy, general authorship criteria, writing-support acknowledgement and the ghostwriting debate to neighbouring topics.
- Why publication guidelines exist — the legal status of publication and the effort to restore trust in reported research
- How Good Publication Practice developed through its editions before 2022 — development and coverage of the 2003, 2009 and 2015 editions
- Reading the 2022 edition of Good Publication Practice — applying a guideline, using its main text and supplement, its added principles, development and uptake
- What the guideline expects for and of the medical writer — ethical treatment, agreed involvement, author direction, meetings, authorship, final checks, disclosure and professional conduct
- Documenting a publication’s process at the scale you work at — proportionate records and audits, evidence of author direction, version control and manuscript quality assurance
- The MPIP recommendations for closing the credibility gap — ten joint journal-and-industry recommendations, the credibility problem, the sponsoring initiative and the recommendations’ reach