Media Relations
The Technological-Educational Journal Docentes 2.0 (TEDJ) shares and promotes the guidelines of ethics and good editorial practices of the COPE (Committee of Publication Ethics), thus guaranteeing transparency and integrity in all processes by the journal's editorial team, as well as their collaborators in the roles of authors and evaluators.
As defined by COPE (199) Definition: Medical research findings are of increasing interest to the print and broadcast media. Journalists may attend scientific meetings at which preliminary research findings are presented, leading to their premature publication in the mass media.
Journalists may attend scientific meetings at which preliminary research findings are presented, leading to their premature publication in the mass media.
(1) Authors approached by the media should give as balanced an account of their work as possible, ensuring that they point out where evidence ends, and speculation begins.
(2) Simultaneous publication in the mass media and a peer-reviewed journal is advised, as this usually means that enough evidence and data have been provided to satisfy informed and critical readers.
(3) Where this is not possible, authors should help journalists to produce accurate reports, but refrain from supplying additional data.
(4) All efforts should be made to ensure that patients who have helped with the research should be informed of the results by the authors before the mass media, especially if there are clinical implications.
(5) Authors should be advised by the organizers if journalists are to attend scientific meetings.
(6) It may be helpful to authors to be advised of any media policies operated by the journal in which their work is to be published.
*Statement based on COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Elsevier recommendations.