Use of PubMed’s conflict-of-interest field has increased over time, but utilization remains limited, according to research published in PLOS One.
Utilization of the field even remains low among high-impact journals results showed.
The National Library of Medicine added the voluntary conflict-of-interest (COI) field to PubMed’s abstract page in 2017.
Peter Lurie, MD, MPH, president and executive director of Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and colleagues examined use of the field for journals and articles indexed on PubMed between 2016 and 2021.
Researchers calculated