Resnik David B, Konecny Brandon, Kissling Grace E
Ethics Office, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Research Triangle Park (Dr Resnik); North Carolina Central University, Durham (Konecny); and Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch, NIEHS/NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (Dr Kissling).
J Occup Environ Med. 2017 Jan;59(1):28-33. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000910.
The aim of this study was to analyze conflict of interest (COI) and funding disclosure policies of 224 journals listed in Journal Citation Reports as focusing on environmental, occupational, or public health research.
A survey of journal policies and content analysis.
About 96.0% of the policies required COI disclosure, 92.4% required funding disclosure, 75.9% defined COIs, 69.6% provided examples of COIs, 68.8% addressed nonfinancial COIs, 33.9% applied to editors and reviewers, 32.1% required discussion of the role of the funding source, and 1.8% included enforcement mechanisms. Policies were significantly associated with journal impact factor and publisher.
Although a high percentage of journals in our sample have COI policies that provide substantial guidance to authors, there is a room for improvement. Journals that have not done so should consider developing enforcement mechanisms and applying COI policies to editors and reviewers.
本研究旨在分析《期刊引证报告》中列出的224种专注于环境、职业或公共卫生研究的期刊的利益冲突(COI)和资金披露政策。
对期刊政策进行调查并进行内容分析。
约96.0%的政策要求披露利益冲突,92.4%要求披露资金来源,75.9%对利益冲突进行了定义,69.6%提供了利益冲突的示例,68.8%涉及非财务利益冲突,33.9%适用于编辑和审稿人,32.1%要求讨论资金来源的作用,1.8%包括执行机制。政策与期刊影响因子和出版商显著相关。
尽管我们样本中的高比例期刊拥有为作者提供大量指导的利益冲突政策,但仍有改进空间。尚未这样做的期刊应考虑制定执行机制,并将利益冲突政策应用于编辑和审稿人。