Sentence examples for statement of conflicts from inspiring English sources

Authorship Form and Statement of Conflicts of Interest [PDF].

The reason why there was no statement of conflict of interest is because: 1) there were no "sources of financial support for the project" (it was a labor of love to honor a giant in the energy field); and 2) there is no plausible conflict of interest for a 53-author piece paying tribute to Dr. Art Rosenfeld by defining a new metric in his name.

All articles (with and without explicit statements of conflicts of interest; differentiated in the tables 2 and 3, see Additional file 1) were examined as to whether information on possible conflicts of interest could be deducted from the institutional affiliations of the authors (e.g. staff members of for-profit companies) and from the acknowledgements.

A statement on conflicts of interest is explicitly published in 11 of the 71 articles (15%) which are found in the magazines that require a statement with the submission of a manuscript.

Of the included journals, 18 (58%) require an authors' statement on conflicts of interest, 13 (42%) do not require a statement (table 1, see Additional file 1).

Of the articles published in magazines which require an authors' statement on conflicts of interest (n = 71), we examined the following questions using full text articles: ▪ Is the statement explicitly published?

The instructions for authors were examined in all 31 journals using the freely accessible internet homepages of the journals (all accesses on July 10 , 2006: ▪ Is a statement on conflicts of interest demanded?

In none of the examined articles statements on conflicts of interests of others that are involved in the publication process (reviewers, editors) could be found.

Read the statement on conflicts of interest by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors to get the idea.

13 magazines (42%) do not require any statement on conflicts of interest, whereas 18 journals (58%) expect a statement.

In the magazines the instructions for authors were examined as to whether a statement on conflicts of interest is expected – and if, in which form.