Professor of Neurosurgery, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, NEPAL.
Medical Officer, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, NEPAL.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2023 Apr-Jun;VIII(2):103-108. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2022.060. Epub 2022 Aug 10.
Most biomedical journals now require authors to declare their conflicts of interest (COI), especially financial ones, before they accept the manuscript for submission. This study aims to examine the COI policies of Nepalese healthcare journals. The sample constituted journals indexed in Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) as of June 2021. Of the 68 that met our inclusion criteria, 38(55.9%) journals endorsed the COI policy of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Thirty-six (52.9%) journals had a policy for reporting the COI. Financial COI was the only type of COI mentioned. All journals in Nepal are encouraged to request the authors to declare the COI for better transparency.
大多数生物医学期刊现在要求作者在提交稿件之前声明他们的利益冲突（COI），尤其是财务利益冲突。本研究旨在检查尼泊尔医疗保健期刊的 COI 政策。样本由截至 2021 年 6 月在尼泊尔在线期刊（NepJOL）中索引的期刊组成。在符合我们纳入标准的 68 种期刊中，有 38 种（55.9%）期刊认可国际医学期刊编辑委员会的 COI 政策。有 36 种（52.9%）期刊制定了报告 COI 的政策。财务 COI 是唯一提到的 COI 类型。鼓励尼泊尔的所有期刊要求作者声明 COI，以提高透明度。
