Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest among physician-authors in leading US psychiatry journals: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the prevalence and magnitude of undisclosed financial conflicts of interest (COIs) among physician-authors in high-impact US-based psychiatry journals.

Design

Cross-sectional study comparing the author self-reported disclosures to the journal(s) with payments mandatorily reported in the Open Payments database.

Methods

We examined original research articles published between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022 in two prominent US-based psychiatry journals: the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) and Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry (JAMA-PSY). Of 2872 publications screened, 74 articles authored by 27 eligible US-based physician-authors met the inclusion criteria.

Outcome measures

Total paymen

SUBMITTER: Gesel F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12612769 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature