Editorial

Biochemia Medica introduces the revised policy on Statement of Conflict of Interest

Ana-Maria Simundic orcid.org/0000-0002-2391-5241 ; Biochemia Medica, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Biochemia Medica announces that from this issue Journal will be publishing the Statement on Conflict of Interest for Authors for all article types in printed as well as in electronic form of the Journal. This way Journal wishes to provide its readers the opportunity to unambiguously judge the quality and reliability of the data presentation and potential competing interests that could have biased the quality of the presented work in any way. This decision was made because we believe that scientific journals have an ultimate responsibility to provide unbiased scientific articles to its readership. We also believe that if any potential source of bias exists, it is the responsibility of the journal to disclose this informati-on, since this might influence the judging the manuscript by editors, reviewers and readers. Therefore, when submitting their work in the future, author are kindly invited to make sure that they have carefully considered and disclosed all potential sources of competing interests that might have influ-enced their work. We hope that in such way we can help build a better future for the evidence based scientific research, on an international level.

Keywords

editor; journal; editorial policy; conflict of interest; disclosure

Hrčak ID:

69649

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/69649

Publication date:

15.6.2011.

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