Increased responsibility and transparency in an era of increased visibility

PLoS Med. 2010 Oct 26;7(10):e1000364. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000364.

Abstract

The PLoS Medicine editors discuss further the paper by Peter Gøtzsche and colleagues on journals' competing interests. The editorial reinforces the call by Harvey Marcovitch for journals to be transparent and thus discloses PLoS Medicine's sources of income for 2009.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Access to Information
  • Bibliometrics*
  • Disclosure* / ethics
  • Disclosure* / standards
  • Humans
  • Internationality
  • Internet
  • Publishing / ethics*
  • Publishing / standards
  • Publishing / trends*
  • Social Responsibility*