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Jessica J. Liu, Chaim M. Bell, John J. Matelski, Allan S. Detsky, and Peter Cram
October 26, 2017
BMJ (British Medical Journal)
University of Toronto

"Abstract

Objective: To estimate financial payments from industry to US journal editors...

Participants: 713 editors at the associate level and above identified from each journal’s online masthead.

Main outcome measures: All general payments (eg, personal income) and research related payments from pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to eligible physicians in 2014...

Results: Of 713 eligible editors, 361 (50.6%) received some (>$0) general payments in 2014, and 139 (19.5%) received research payments. The median general payment was $11 (£8; €9) (interquartile range $0-2923) and the median research payment was $0 ($0-0). The mean general payment was $28 136 (SD $415 045), and the mean research payment was $37 963 (SD $175 239)...

Methods

... Editor selection: ... Because Open Payments only collects information on payments to physicians, we excluded non-physician editors."

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