Pregledni rad
Conflict of Interest in Science Communication: More than a Financial Issue Report from Esteve Foundation Discussion Group, April 2009
Harvey Marcovitch
; Committe on Publication and Clinic Risk, London, UK
Virginia Barbour
; PloS Medicine, Cambidge, UK
Carme Borrell
; Journal of Epidermiology & Community Health, Barcelona, Spain
Felix Bosch
; Esteve Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Esteve Fernández
; Gaceta Sanitaria, Barcelona, Spain
Helen Macdonald
; BMJ, London, UK
Ana Marušić
; Croatian Medical Journal, Split, Croatia
Magne Nylenna
; Norwegian Electronic Health Library, Oslo, Norway
Sažetak
A systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that around 2% of scientists admit to have falsified research at least once (1). Up to 33% admit other questionable practices such as plagiarism, duplicate publication, undisclosed changes in pre-research protocols or dubious ethical behavior (1). There can be no doubt that discovered cases of
research and publication misconduct represent a tip of an iceberg and many cases go unreported (2). Experienced biomedical journal editors are aware of a
“rogues’ gallery” of major fraudsters, such as Schoen, Hwang, Sudbo, Poehlman, Singh, and Chandra (3-8). Much more common are the less dramatic, because more subtle but probably more dangerous, examples; these are more dangerous because they remain undiscovered so may
feed into meta-analyses and guidelines. A seminar organized by the Esteve Foundation, held in Sitges in April 2009, concentrated on conflicts of interest (COI, sometimes also referred to as Competing Interests,
CI), which underlie so much research and publication misconduct.
All attendants of the meeting agreed that there were many
sources of COI in the general process of scientific communication
(Figure 1). The meeting was mainly focused on non-financial COI. Three introductory presentations highlighted some of the topics related to COI in the contemporary scientific publishing enterprise.
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