SynthesisDrug and alcohol review2018
Alcohol industry involvement in science: A systematic review of the perspectives of the alcohol research community.
Synthesis in Drug and alcohol review, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research (ISFAR) critiques of alcohol research: Promoting health benefits and downplaying harms.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Differences in Cannabis and Cannabidiol Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors Between US Adolescents Receiving Mood Disorder Treatment and Their Parents Across Legal Contexts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Advancing whose interests? Corporate strategy and risks to food systems transformation and public health nutrition through academic partnerships in Africa.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Randomised study of the effects of sense of entitlement and conflict of interest contrarianism on researcher decision-making to work with the alcohol industry.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Continuities and change in alcohol policy at the global level: a documentary analysis of the 2010 Global Strategy for Reducing the Harmful Use of Alcohol and the Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030.Globalization and health · 2024Article
- Policy Actors' Perceptions of Conflicts of Interest and Alcohol Industry Engagement in UK Policy Processes.International journal of health policy and management · 2024Article
- Tobacco Industry Engagement in the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee E-Cigarettes Inquiry.International journal of health policy and management · 2024Article
- Constructing public-private partnerships to undermine the public interest: critical discourse analysis of Working Together published by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Alcohol policy framing in South Africa during the early stages of COVID-19: using extraordinary times to make an argument for a new normal.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The Commercial Determinants of Health and Evidence Synthesis (CODES): methodological guidance for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses.Systematic reviews · 2023Article
- 'A recipe for cultural disaster!'- a case study of Woolworths Group's proposal to build an alcohol megastore in Darwin, Northern Territory.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Evolution of the major alcohol companies key global policy vehicle through the prism of tax records 2011-19.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Distilling the distillers: examining the political activities of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- Piloting a classification framework for the types of evidence used in alcohol policymaking.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Article
- The emperor has no clothes: a synthesis of findings from the Transformative Research on the Alcohol industry, Policy and Science research programme.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Review
- Industry involvement in evidence production for genomic medicine: A bibliometric and funding analysis of decision impact studies.PloS one · 2023Article
- Describing and mapping scientific articles on alcohol globally for the period 2010-2021: a bibliometric analysis.BMJ open · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
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Abstract
issuesAlcohol companies have recently invested large sums of money in answering research questions to which they have clear vested interests in the outcomes. There have been extensive concerns about corporate influence on public health sciences, following the experience with the tobacco industry. APPROACH: This systematic review aims to investigate the perspectives of researchers on the activities of alcohol industry actors in relation to science, in order to guide future research. All data published in peer-reviewed journals (including commentaries, opinion pieces, editorials and letters as well as research reports) were eligible for inclusion. This analysis focuses on the manifest rather than latent content of the articulated views, and accordingly adopts a thematic analysis using an inductive approach to the generation of themes. KEY
findingsThere are serious concerns identified in three main areas, principally defined by where the impacts of industry scientific activities occur; on evidence informed policy making (instrumental uses of research by industry actors), on the content of the scientific evidence base itself (industry funding as a source of bias); and on the processes of undertaking research (transgressions of basic scientific norms). There are also opposing views which provide a useful critique. The evidence-base on the validity of all concerns has been slow to develop. IMPLICATIONS: The concerns are extensive, longstanding and unresolved and high quality investigations are needed.
conclusionThis study informs the detailed content of the research needed to address the concerns identified here.
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