Perceptions of conflict of interest disclosures among peer reviewers.

Disclosure of financial conflicts of interest (COI) is intended to help reviewers assess the impact of potential bias on the validity of research results; however, there have been no empiric assessments of how reviewers understand and use disclosures in article evaluation. We investigate reviewers&#...

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Main Authors: Suzanne Lippert, Michael L Callaham, Bernard Lo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3206871?pdf=render