Removal and Revisions 

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work will remain in our system, along with a URL. 

If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, please contact the editors. 

Rights and Permissions 

DOM Clinical Insights does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership, granting a nonexclusive license to the journal and eScholarship to publish the article, meaning that the author may also publish it elsewhere. Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared in any third-party material. All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which is available in the first step of the submission process or by contacting us to request a copy. 

Open Access Statement 

This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. 

Long-Term Preservation Policy 

All materials submitted to eScholarship are automatically deposited in CDL's Merritt Preservation Repository for long-term preservation. 

Ethics Statement 

UCLA DOM Clinical Insights follows the standards established in the “Core Practices” of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors, editors, and reviewers are required to comply with the ethical guidelines as written below. 

Authorship and Contributorship 

UCLA DOM Clinical Insights follows the authorship guidelines set forth by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). These guidelines outline authorship credit as follows: 

1. Made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND 
2. Participated in drafting/reviewing critically for important intellectual content; AND 
3. Provided final approval of the version to be published; AND 
4. Agree to be accountable for all aspects of the manuscript in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. 

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all people who meet all four criteria for authorship should be identified as authors. 

Contributors to the work who do not meet all four criteria for authorship should be acknowledged. 

Concerns and Appeals 

Readers with concerns about published articles should first contact the corresponding author to attempt a resolution. In cases where contacting the corresponding author is inappropriate—or if the corresponding author is unresponsive or unable to resolve the reader’s concerns—concerned readers can contact our editorial team, who will work with the Editorial Board to achieve a resolution. Decisions about corrections or retractions will be made by Editorial Board members. 

Authors with concerns should note that the Editorial Board and the journal’s staff have broad discretion when making publication decisions. However, authors who believe their manuscripts have been unfairly rejected are welcome to submit an appeal to the editorial team, who will decide how to proceed. 

Conflicts of Interest 

Authors: All authors are required to complete his or her own ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. These forms should be uploaded at submission by the corresponding author. 

Authors are also requested to identify funding sources for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement, then this should be stated. View our Information for authors for more information. 

Reviewers: Reviewers are required to disclose (on the reviewer score sheet) whether they have any financial or professional affiliations that may be perceived as a conflict of interest in reviewing a specific manuscript. Reviewers should decline to review any manuscript with which they have any conflict-of-interest issues regarding the topic, authors, or related affiliations that may hinder providing a fair and balanced review. If unsure, reviewers should contact the editorial team for clarification. 

Editorial Team: Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts should recuse themselves from editorial decisions if they have conflicts of interest or relationships that pose potential conflicts related to articles under consideration. Other editorial staff members who participate in editorial decisions must provide editors with a current description of their financial interests or other conflicts (as they might relate to editorial judgments) and recuse themselves from any decisions in which a conflict of interest exists. Editorial staff must not use information gained through working with manuscripts for private gain. 

Data and Reproducibility 

UCLA DOM Clinical Insights encourages but does not require authors to deposit data and code in a trusted repository that allows for accession and reuse—unless such action might cause ethical, legal, or privacy issues. Authors should clarify the availability status of their data at the time of submission. To ensure enduring transparency, we also recommend that authors archive their research or provide minimal datasets to the journal as Supplemental Material. 

Informed Consent 

Authors submitting manuscripts in which a patient might be identified by their case description or facial image, even if only by the patient themselves, must obtain written informed consent from the patient

• UCLA authors: English, UCLA form 10069 or Spanish, UCLA form 10069a 
• If the patient is deceased, written consent should be sought from the patient’s next-of-kin. 

In addition to providing the patient with a draft of the manuscript, authors should take care to provide information in the patient’s primary language and to mitigate barriers such as low health literacy. 

Intellectual Property 

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture, or an academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright holder. 

Live Subjects 

Research on human or animal subjects must be reviewed and approved by IRB of the institution at which the research was conducted. Authors should include an attestation that IRB approval was obtained in the Materials and Methods section of relevant manuscripts. 

Special care should be taken in studies that involve vulnerable populations. Any study that describes groups by race, ethnicity, gender, disability, disease, etc. should explain the need for such categorization. Studies should engage vulnerable groups and people in vulnerable groups only if their involvement is necessary and the output of the study is beneficial to them. 

Peer Review 

UCLA DOM Clinical Insights uses a double anonymized review process in adherence to the guidelines set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Detailed information about the journal’s peer review policies can be found under here.

Post-Publication Corrections and Retractions 

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work, along with a URL, will remain on UC eScholarship. 

In the case that a significant error is discovered, corrections or retractions can be made at the discretion of the Editorial Board. 

If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, or if a significant error or submission is discovered, please contact the editorial team. 

Advertisements 

We do not accept advertisements from any industry or institution for inclusion in UCLA DOM Clinical Insights. All publications will be free of advertisements and remain open access. 

Ethics of Writing about Patients: Checklist  

• I have obtained consent from the patient(s) referenced in my text before submitting it and have completed the consent form if identifiable information is contained. When consent cannot be obtained, I have altered all specific and identifying details in my text so that the story would not be recognizable to the patient(s) referenced or their families if read by them.  
• I have reflected on my own motives in writing this essay and have stated them in my cover e-mail.  
• If identifiable details are contained with patient consent, I have considered the legal, ethical, and personal impact on the patient, family, and colleagues of publishing my personal reflections in a medical journal.  
• I have shown this essay to a professional colleague as well as to the patient or someone who has something in common with the patient (i.e., a sensitivity reader), and have incorporated feedback from those individuals into this submission.  
• I have considered whether I am taking advantage of my power dominance (in terms of physician/patient relationship, race, gender, age, etc.) over the patient in publishing this piece. 

Artificial Intelligence/Plagiarism Statement 

UCLA DOM Clinical Insights adhere to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines for standardizing how authors prepare and format manuscripts for submission to biomedical journals for publication. Compliance with these recommendations is required by most leading biomedical journals.  

Please see here for more details.

• "Referencing AI-generated material as the primary source is not acceptable." 
• "Chatbots (such as ChatGPT) should not be listed as authors because they cannot be responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work, and these responsibilities are required for authorship." 
• "At submission, the journal requires authors to disclose whether they used artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technologies (such as Large Language Models [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." 
• "Authors should be able to assert that there is no plagiarism in their paper, including in text and images produced by the AI." 
• "Humans must ensure there is appropriate attribution of all quoted material, including full citations." 
• Manuscripts written entirely by AI will be rejected.