Article Text
PDFBrief report
Conflict of interest disclosure and the polarisation of scientific communities
Abstract
In this article, we introduce and define the notion of polarised scientific communities. We show how polarisation may generate genuine conflicts of interest that require specific efforts to be identified and reported, and suggest a simple heuristic for the identification and reporting of the polarisation of research. We use examples from the debates about breast cancer screening and the prescription of statins to people at low risk of heart disease.
- Ethics
- Publication Ethics
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Linked Articles
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- Conflict of interest policies and disclosure requirements among European Society of Cardiology national cardiovascular journals
- Mandatory disclosure of financial interests of journals and editors
- Improving researchers’ conflict of interest declarations
- Effect of revealing authors’ conflicts of interests in peer review: randomized controlled trial
- Conflict-of-interest disclosure at medical journals in Japan: a nationwide survey of the practices of journal secretariats
- Disclosures of funding sources and conflicts of interest in published HIV/AIDS research conducted in developing countries
- A cross-sectional examination of conflict-of-interest disclosures of physician-authors publishing in high-impact US medical journals
- Accessibility and transparency of editor conflicts of interest policy instruments in medical journals
- Sixth version of the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals”: lots of ethics, some new recommendations for manuscript preparation
- Reporting of financial and non-financial conflicts of interest by authors of systematic reviews: a methodological survey