Swiss Medical Weekly

Disclosure of AI-assisted technologies required at submission. 模型摘要

Authors are required to disclose at submission whether they used AI-assisted technologies (such as LLMs, chatbots, or image creators) in the production of submitted work. Authors who use such technology should describe, in both the cover letter and the submitted work in the appropriate section if applicable, how they used it. Chatbots (such as ChatGPT) and other AI-assisted tools should not be lis…

Authorship credit should be based only on (1) substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work; (2) drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (3) final approval of the version to be published; (4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions …

Data sharing statement required for all submitted research articles. 模型摘要

All submitted research articles must contain a data sharing statement as described here.

Ethics approval statement required for prospective human or animal research. 模型摘要

The SMW supporting association is a member of CrossCheck, a service offered by CrossRef and powered by iThenticate software. In our online editorial system, all newly submitted manuscripts are automatically compared with the CrossCheck database. Submissions with overlaps to already published articles are carefully checked for plagiarism by the editorial team.

"Swiss Medical Weekly" is a Diamond open access publication published in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors are requested to grant the sponsoring association a non-exclusive licence to publish. We do not ask authors to transfer copyright to us. Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

Single blind peer review for all manuscripts except Editorials and Technical comments. 模型摘要

Prior to publication, all manuscripts, with the exception of Editorials and Technical comments, undergo a single blind peer review, conducted by independent experts in the field and, if applicable, by a professional statistician.

Plagiarism detection via CrossCheck/iThenticate on all newly submitted manuscripts. 模型摘要

The SMW supporting association is a member of CrossCheck, a service offered by CrossRef and powered by iThenticate software. In our online editorial system, all newly submitted manuscripts are automatically compared with the CrossCheck database. Submissions with overlaps to already published articles are carefully checked for plagiarism by the editorial team.

Clinical trial registration required at or before first patient enrollment. 模型摘要

We require publicly accessible registration of interventional trials in any registry that is a primary register of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) or in ClinicalTrials.gov at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication, in accord with ICMJE recommendations.