ADA Publications: Our Core Values

As a publisher of leading scientific and clinical content in diabetes, ADA Publications is responsible for ensuring that our work supports real-world impact, scientific progress, and improved health outcomes. To meet that responsibility, we are guided by the following principles:

• Clarity and Accountability
  We recognize that systemic barriers can limit access to health care and to participation in research. Our role as a publisher is to help surface these challenges and make space for research that addresses them directly. We are committed to publishing content that clarifies problems, supports solutions, and contributes to a more accurate and transparent understanding of the landscape.
• Broad Access to Information
  ADA Publications are committed to publishing content in ways that meet the needs of a wide and varied readership—including care providers, researchers, students, and community health professionals. This includes offering content in multiple formats, supporting open-access initiatives, and continually exploring new channels for sharing practical, evidence-based information.
• Diverse Perspectives and Real-World Relevance
  Research is stronger when it reflects a range of voices, backgrounds, and experiences. We are committed to supporting editorial leadership and content that represents a broad spectrum of perspectives and experiences, with the goal of ensuring that the research and information presented in our publications is more complete, more practical, and more applicable across settings.
• Responsiveness to the Community
  We are committed to being in conversation with the people and professionals our publications serve. This means maintaining high editorial and ethical standards, listening to feedback, and staying aware of how the needs of the field are evolving. It also means publishing content that addresses the realities of research and care, especially among communities most affected by diabetes.

ADA Publications has joined publishers worldwide working together to set standards for meeting our core principles. These standards are intended to:

• enable senior leaders in publishing, editorial decision makers (which may involve staff or academics), and editorial boards to evaluate their performance and progress on representing patient and professional communities; and

• enable publishers, editorial decision makers, authors, and reviewers to identify and take achievable, specific actions to promote a diversity of thought, background, and experiences in scholarly publishing.
  
  

Demographic Data Collection

To measure progress toward these goals, the ADA's scholarly journals collect demographic data via each journal's peer-review site (ScholarOne Manuscripts). The goal of the standardized questions is to understand the current demographic makeup of our publications' authors, editors, and reviewers, so that we may measure progress towards effecting positive changes in the larger scientific community.