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Archives: Conflict of interest

Has Google Become a Journal Publisher?

Google’s journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 11, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Wellcome Money — Involvement with F1000 Opens Door on Sketchy Peer Review, COIs, and Spending Decisions

With a new partnership with F1000, Wellcome embraces sketchy peer review standards, deep conflicts of interest, and financial support of a private, commercial enterprise. Worse, the entire thing seems redundant, avoidable, and unnecessary.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 20, 2016
  • 23 Comments

What If Academic and Scholarly Publishers Paid Research Authors?

It’s a question that has lurked around the edges of our campfire for a while — what if publishers paid authors of research papers? Quickly, it becomes clear why this is very unlikely to happen — for financial, ethical, and practical reasons.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 25, 2016
  • 37 Comments

Seeing Beyond Transparency — Do Disclosure Rules Blunt the Need for Actual Ethics?

The pursuit of transparency and use of disclosures in place of actual ethics may be creating a culture of accommodation rather than one fostering independence. Where does transparency belong?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 21, 2013
  • 6 Comments

Scientists Propose Central Database for Disclosing Conflicts of Interest

Creating a centralized database for disclosing conflicts of interest (COI) is an easy sell. Deciding who is responsible and accountable for its funding and support is a much harder problem.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 11, 2012
  • 2 Comments

PubMed Central's Failures in Handling Conflicts of Interest with eLife

One of the layers of impropriety regarding PubMed Central’s handling of eLife is its mismanagement of conflicts of interest.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 15, 2012
  • 12 Comments

Recuse, Refuse, or Excuse — The Conflicts of Interest at the Heart of Funder-Backed Journals

Funder-sponsored journals raise important conflict of interest questions, and may be fundamentally untenable in an industry that requires independent third-party evaluation of research reports.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 17, 2012
  • 39 Comments

Better Late Than Never? Economists Grapple with Conflicts of Interest and Disclosure

A major economics association establishes conflict of interest and disclosure rules for its publications, expecting others to follow. But is the lateness of these rules reassuring, or maddening?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 11, 2012
  • 5 Comments

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