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and is the official journal of the

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. The

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is Douglas Novins. According to the ''

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'', its 2014

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is 7.26, ranking it first among 119 journals in the category "Pediatrics". It is abstracted and indexed in

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, and

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Call for retraction

The group Healthy Skepticism has accused the journal of having published an article, in 2001, that misrepresented the results of an industry-sponsored clinical trial, study 329. The study examined the use of

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by teenagers. The trial was sponsored by, and ghostwritten on behalf of, SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline), 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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