Editor's Page: September 16, 2025 | JACC

In June 2025, the White House introduced "Gold Standard Science" principles to enhance the rigor, transparency, and trustworthiness of federally funded research—values long embraced by top journals like JACC. These include reproducibility, openness to null results, interdisciplinary collaboration, and unbiased peer review, all of which align with JACC's ongoing commitment to scientific integrity. The journal is advancing efforts to improve transparency, peer review, and reproducibility through clearer data policies, stronger editorial oversight, and new tools like AI to support integrity and efficiency. Ultimately, JACC views these principles not as a shift, but as a reaffirmation of its mission to uphold scientific excellence while remaining independent, accountable, and open to challenge and debate.