ISMPP Highlights
Introducing the ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Working Group: What Is It Up To?
Are you interested in learning how social media and web-based metrics can be utilized in publication planning, and what guidelines and best practices should be followed? The ISMPP Social Media and Web-based Metrics Working Group…
ISMPP West 2019: A Pivotal Educational Meeting
ISMPP West 2019 proved to be a pivotal meeting for the Society’s educational presence on the US West Coast. This second-ever ISMPP West, held November 14-15, 2019, was highly regarded and was well-attended with 124 participants, topping last year’s ISMPP West…
GPP4: Development Is Underway
ISMPP is honored to have the opportunity to sponsor the next iteration of the Good Publication Practice (GPP) guidelines, an industry-leading document to guide the ethical development of medical publications. Development of the GPP4 guidelines is now well underway, with a Steering Committee established and working steadily on revisions to the guidance…
Message from Our Leadership
Robert J. Matheis
ISMPP President and CEO
News and Trends
What I Would Like You to Know: A Real-World Evidence Expert’s Perspective
What are one or two things you want your medical publication colleagues to know from your experience of working on real-world evidence (RWE) publications? First, research models and applications for RWE are quite different from clinical trials. Even the terminology involved is different…
Converting Insight to Action: Key Aspects of Competitive Intelligence for Strategic Planning
As medical affairs and medical publication professionals, it is important to understand how competitive intelligence can help inform our medical communication strategies and plans. However, many do not know where or how to obtain the needed information or…
Scientific Communication Platforms: Highlighting Current Best Practices
Scientific communication platforms (SCPs) were first introduced into pharmaceutical practices more than a decade ago. Since their introduction, SCPs have evolved to keep pace with the ever-changing needs of the healthcare landscape…
What Would You Do?
In our role as medical publication professionals, we may occasionally encounter situations in which it is not obvious how to ensure good publication practice. Have you ever wished you could consult the ISMPP membership for guidance when these situations arise? Here’s your opportunity!
What Would You Do? is a section of The MAP that presents case scenarios as an educational tool for medical publication professionals. The section provides a case scenario to ponder, and readers are invited to participate in a poll by selecting one of the listed solutions. Readers can also submit their thoughts on the scenario anonymously. The poll results, plus educational insights, are posted in a later issue for readers to digest.
Preprint Review Results in Added Author?
You are the Scientific Director of a medical communications agency who is working with the Publications Director at a large pharma company. An external author posts draft one of a preclinical manuscript on their department preprint server to invite review and comments from colleagues who performed some of the work yet did not meet all ICMJE criteria for full authorship…
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