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Public health journals’ requirements for authors to disclose funding and conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2018
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Title
Public health journals’ requirements for authors to disclose funding and conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional study
Published in
BMC Public Health, April 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5456-z
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Karim N. Daou, Maram B. Hakoum, Assem M. Khamis, Lama Bou-Karroum, Ahmed Ali, Joseph R. Habib, Aline T. Semaan, Gordon Guyatt, Elie A. Akl

Abstract

Public health journals need to have clear policies for reporting the funding of studies and authors' personal financial and non-financial conflicts of interest (COI) disclosures. This study aims to assess the policies of public health journals on reporting of study funding and the disclosure of authors' COIs. This is a cross-sectional study of "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health" journals. Teams of two researchers abstracted data in duplicate and independently using REDCap software. Of 173 public health journals, 155 (90%) had a policy for reporting study funding information. Out of these, a majority did not require reporting of the phase of the study for which funding was received (88%), nor the types of funding sources (87%). Of the 173 journals, 163 (94%) had a policy requiring disclosure of authors' COI. However, the majority of these journals did not require financial conflicts of interest disclosures relating to institutions (75%) nor to the author's family members (90%) while 56% required the disclosure of at least one form of non-financial COI. The policies of the majority of public health journals do not require the reporting of important details such as the role of the funder, and non-financial COI. Journals and publishers should consider revising their editorial policies to ensure complete and transparent reporting of funding and COI.

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Unknown 22 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 23%
Professor 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 9 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 18%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 45%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2022.
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#1,701,807
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#1,883
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#36,102
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#50
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