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• Ethical Approval has been made mandatory since 2010
  Angel Magar
  Published on: 28 February 2012

• Published on: 28 February 2012

  Ethical Approval has been made mandatory since 2010

  • Angel Magar, President

  Dear Authors,

  Thank you very much for highlighting the importance of ethics in research. When I was at the Kathmandu University Medical Journal (KUMJ), Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA) and Journal of Nepal Health Research Council (JNHRC), authors were required to submit ethical approval letter from 2010. We started advertising and notifying authors of this from 2008.

  I left KUMJ and JNMA in...

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  Dear Authors,

  Thank you very much for highlighting the importance of ethics in research. When I was at the Kathmandu University Medical Journal (KUMJ), Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA) and Journal of Nepal Health Research Council (JNHRC), authors were required to submit ethical approval letter from 2010. We started advertising and notifying authors of this from 2008.

  I left KUMJ and JNMA in 2011, but the ethical approval letter remains mandatory for research articles. JNHRC and World Journal of Health Sciences (WJHS) have also made it mandatory to submit an ethical approval letter.

  There are five PubMed index journals, of which KUMJ, JNMA and JNHRC have already made the ethical approval letter compulsory two years ago, with initiation long before, but the author fails to research this in depth.

  Therefore, we, the editors from Nepal, felt that there is gap of knowledge at various levels and we formed the Nepal Association of Medical Editors (NAME) in order to provide education and to foster medical journal editors. It is also requesting all the editors and journals to check for the correct ethical approval letter.

  The Ethical Review Board (ERB) of Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) has continuously expanded its reach to the institutions and to organizations setting up IRCs in the institutions. They are also providing training at various levels.

  NAME is collaborating with ERB to foster ethics in research in Nepal. Similarly NAME is a member of the Committee of Publication Ethics, UK, through which it is fostering publication ethics as well.

  However, there is room for development to improve the scientific community in developing countries.

  Conflict of Interest:

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  Conflict of Interest:
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