Reviewing the Reviewers Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest in Editorial Boards of Surgery Journals

Conclusions: Industry funding to editorial board members of high impact surgery journals is prevalent and underreported. Mechanisms of disclosure for COI are needed at the editorial board level to provide readers full transparency. This would acknowledge this COI of editorial board members, and thereby attempt to potentially further reduce the risk of bias in editorial decisions.
Source: Annals of Surgery - Category: Surgery Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research