The ''Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

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covering

pediatric psychiatry Child and adolescent psychiatry (or pediatric psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. It investigates the biopsychosocial fact ...

. It is published by Elsevier and is the official journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The editor-in-chief is Douglas Novins. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', its 2014 impact factor is 7.26, ranking it first among 119 journals in the category "Pediatrics". It is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/ PubMed, and Science Citation Index.

Call for retraction

The group

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has accused the journal of having published an article, in 2001, that misrepresented the results of an industry-sponsored clinical trial,

study 329 Study 329 was a clinical trial which was conducted in North America from 1994 to 1998 to study the efficacy of paroxetine, an SSRI anti-depressant, in treating 12- to 18-year-olds diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Led by Martin Keller, t ...

. The study examined the use of paroxetine by teenagers. The trial was sponsored by, and ghostwritten on behalf of, SmithKline Beecham (now

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), and is widely regarded as having downplayed the trial's negative results. ''JAACAP'' editors have declined to retract the article, arguing that the negative results are available in the article, and that therefore there are no grounds for retraction. This claim is disputed on the basis that primary and secondary outcomes for efficacy were manipulated and safety results were obscured or omitted. Critics therefore argue that the Journal's editors have failed to uphold the scientific standards of clinical research by failing to retract a fraudulent article. Leemon B. McHenry, Jon N. Jureidini, "Industry-sponsored ghostwriting in clinical trial reporting: a case study," ''Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance'', 15(3), July–September 2008, pp. 152–167.

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