Reviewers And Conflict Of Interest Disclosures

Reviewers And Conflict Of Interest Disclosures

Conflict of interest disclosures don't alter the recommendations of peer reviewers. A new study suggests that such conflicts of interest disclosures have no impact on journal reviewers, even when the authors of submitted papers did, in fact, report conflicts. The study also found that reviewers' evaluations of different facets of research quality, such as methods, conclusions and objectivity, were similarly unaffected by COI disclosures. Source 5q.