Conflict of Interest Policy

Articles would be published with statements or supporting documents declaring: 

- Authors’ conflicts of interest; and

- Sources of support for the work, including sponsor names along with explanations of the role of those sources if any in study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the report; the decision to submit the report for publication; or a statement declaring that the supporting source had no such involvement; and

- Whether the authors had access to the study data, with an explanation of the nature and extent of access, including whether access is on-going.

 

To support the above statements, editors may request that authors of a study sponsored by a funder with a proprietary or financial interest in the outcome sign a statement, such as “I had full access to all of the data in this study and I take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.”

Adopted from Conflict of Interest in Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals which is prepared by WAME Editorial Policy and Publication Ethics Committees and UMJ journals (open acces no).

 

Editor of "Journal of Immunology and Clinical Microbiology".

Last updated: May 18, 2016