Conflicts of interest of editors of medical journals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Almost all medical journals now require authors to publicly disclose conflicts of interests (COI). The same standard and scrutiny is rarely employed for the editors of the journals although COI may affect editorial decisions.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective observational study to determine the prevalence and magnitude of financial relationships among editors of 60 influential US medical journals (10 each for internal medicine and five subspecialties: cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, dermatology and allergy & immunology). Open Payments database was reviewed to determine the percentage of physician editors receiving payments and the nature and amount of these payments.

Findings

703 unique physician editors were included in our analysis. 320/703 (

SUBMITTER: Haque W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5959187 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature