May 4, 2001
Few Journals Report Authors' Conflicts of Interest, Study Finds
Very few scientific or biomedical journals report the financial interests of authors that relate to the research they are writing about, a study on disclosure policies has found.
This is so even for journals that have conflict-of-interest policies, the study shows, and for journals with policies calling for such conflicts to be reported.
"Something's off," said Sheldon Krimsky, a co-author of a report on the study, which examined the disclosures in more than 61,000 articles of
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