Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, 3755 Cote Sainte Catherine Road, Montreal, QC, H3T 1E2, Canada.
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Sports Med. 2024 Aug;54(8):1991-2000. doi: 10.1007/s40279-024-02037-w. Epub 2024 May 7.
Academics in sports medicine as well as other medical fields are generally expected to publish research and opinions in peer-reviewed journals. The peer-review process is intended to protect against the publication of flawed research and unsubstantiated claims. However, both financial and non-financial competing interests may result in sub-optimal results by affecting investigators, editors, peer reviewers, academic institutions, and publishers. In this article, we focus on the non-financial competing interests created in our current academic system. Because these competing interests are embedded in our current scholastic framework, the potential biases are difficult to quantify. To minimize the effect of these competing interests, we review and highlight some underlying incentives for each stakeholder and some potential solutions to mitigate their effects.
运动医学及其他医学领域的学者通常需要在同行评议期刊上发表研究和观点。同行评审过程旨在防止有缺陷的研究和未经证实的主张的发表。然而，财务和非财务利益冲突可能会通过影响研究人员、编辑、同行评审人员、学术机构和出版商，导致结果不理想。在本文中，我们专注于我们当前学术体系中产生的非财务利益冲突。由于这些利益冲突嵌入在我们当前的学术框架中，潜在的偏见很难量化。为了最大限度地减少这些利益冲突的影响，我们审查并强调了每个利益相关者的一些潜在激励因素和一些减轻其影响的潜在解决方案。
