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Contributor statement
• Some journals require authors to sign contributor statements
• Provide checklist or ask authors to state contribution in their own words
• Editors should have a contributorship policy
• Identify who is responsible for the integrity of the work
Conflict of interest – financial relationship(s)
• When an investigator, author, editor or reviewer has a financial/personal interest or belief that could affect his/her objectivity or inappropriately influences his/her actions, a potential conflict of interest exists
Direct
• Employment
• Shares, options and ownership in commercial entities
• Grants
• Patents/IP‐rights
• Indirect
• Honoraria
• Consultancies
• Paid expert testimony
• Mutual fund ownership
• Transparency, transparency, transparency
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