PubMed, the leading database of abstracts from medical and life science journals, will reportedly include authors' conflict-of-interest statements and link them to abstracts so they are accessible on search pages.
Most journals necessitate authors to reveal funding and conflicts. To simplify reporting to PubMed, all they need to do is move the information to the abstract or connect it to the abstract. PubMed is now leaving it on journal publishers to provide the information.
PubMed's new policy was recently announced in a technical bulletin by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It comes over a year after a group of scientists, physicians, organisations, and a handful of US senators sent a letter to the NLM and the National Institutes of Health asking them to publish the disclosers.
While the impact of PubMed's new policy is awaited, others in the industry are similarly inclined. The Journal of American Medical Association recently devoted an entire issue to articles about conflict-of-interest.
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