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ArticleScience and engineering ethics2019

Institutional Conflicts of Interest in Academic Research.

David B Resnik

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Article in Science and engineering ethics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Ethical challenges in contemporary psychiatry: an overview and an appraisal of possible strategies and research needs.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024
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  11. Returning Results: Let's Be Honest!Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David B ResnikNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, PO Box 12233, Mail Drop E1-06, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA. resnikd@niehs.nih.gov.

Funding

Ethical, social, and legal issues in environmental health researchZIAES102646 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI RESNIK, DAVID · 2009 to 2025
$1.8M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES102646
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Financial relationships in academic research can create institutional conflicts of interest (COIs) because the financial interests of the institution or institutional officials may inappropriately influence decision-making. Strategies for dealing with institutional COIs include establishing institutional COI committees that involve the board of trustees in conflict review and management, developing policies that shield institutional decisions from inappropriate influences, and establishing private foundations that are independent of the institution to own stock and intellectual property and to provide capital to start-up companies.

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Conflict of InterestEthics, ResearchDecision MakingEthics CommitteesHumansOrganizationsResearch Support as TopicUniversitiesAcademic institutionsBiasConflict of interestEthicsPublic trustResearchTrustees

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PMID26446768
PMCPMC4824668

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