Editorial Standards

Pulso is written by doctoral clinicians for doctoral clinicians. That audience reads closely, so the standards are published: here is what review means on every piece, how corrections work, and where the lines are drawn.

Review, stated openly

Pulso practices two levels of review, and they are not the same. Every feature, profile, and column passes full review: the editor reads the complete draft, a board member in the relevant discipline checks the clinical claims, and every factual assertion is verified against its primary source. News briefs and daily items pass an abbreviated review: the editor verifies the central finding and the numbers against the primary source before publication. Publishing the difference is itself the point; a reader should know which standard produced the piece in front of them.

Corrections

Errors are corrected in the article itself, dated, and noted in the correction log at the foot of the piece, in this form: "A correction was made on [date]: an earlier version [described the error]." Factual errors are never softened into euphemisms. Typographical fixes that do not change meaning are made without a log entry. Silent edits to published substance do not happen here.

Contributors and disclosure

Every contributor completes a disclosure questionnaire before publication: financial ties to the subject, anyone else who had a role in writing, researching, or instigating the piece, and whether AI tools were used. Disclosures appear at the foot of the piece, including "nothing to disclose" where that is the answer. Pieces originated by companies or public relations firms behind a figurehead author are not published. Contributors may not hold a financial interest in what they cover, and they accept no gifts, board seats, or paid engagements related to their Pulso subjects.

Sources

Named, primary sources are the default. Anonymous sources are used only with corroboration, the editor's permission, and an explanation in the story of why anonymity was granted. Drafts are never shared with sources beyond discrete excerpts for accuracy checking.

AI use, labeled

AI-assisted content is always labeled. The Daily Briefing carries "Generated by AI with editorial review" next to its player, and the name of the human who reviewed the script appears on the player itself. Contributors must disclose AI use in their submission, and AI-generated portraits of contributors or any real person are never published. The magazine's images are produced in-house; real people are photographed, never generated.

Independence

Editorial is developed independently of any advertising, sponsorship, or business relationship, all of which is clearly labeled. Sponsors get a labeled slot, never a byline and never a say in topic selection. Pulso is not the publication of any advisory firm; the Capital column is general education, written under disclosed authorship, and reviewed like everything else.

Language

Pulso publishes in English first, with a Spanish mirror for the pieces and pages that exist in Spanish. Articles run in the language the author wrote them. Nothing is machine translated.

Standards change when practice does. This page carries its own history: changes are noted here with a date, in the same spirit as the correction log on every article.