Bidirectional conflicts of interest involving industry and medical journals: who will champion integrity?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Publication integrity and industry influences on the editorial process: a case study.Research integrity and peer review · 2026
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2. Reading Between the Lines: Navigating Nuance in Medical Literature to Optimize Clinical Decision-Making and Health Care Outcomes.Advances in medical education and practice · 2023
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3. Conflict of interest policies and disclosure requirements among European Society of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Journals.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2012
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4. Ten recommendations for closing the credibility gap in reporting industry-sponsored clinical research: a joint journal and pharmaceutical industry perspective.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2012
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5. Myelodysplastic syndromes--many new drugs, little therapeutic progress.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2010
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6. Conflicts of interest, authorship, and disclosures in industry-related scientific publications.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2010
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7. Conflicts of interest, authorship, and disclosures in industry-related scientific publications.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2010
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8. Conflicts of interest, authorship, and disclosures in industry-related scientific publications.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2010
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9. Conflicts of interest, authorship, and disclosures in industry-related scientific publications.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2010
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10. Professional medical organizations and commercial conflicts of interest: ethical issues.Annals of family medicine
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Corrections and comments

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  Conflicts of interest, authorship, and disclosures in industry-related scientific publications: the tort bar and editorial oversight of medical journals.2009

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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