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As post World War II science has flourished it was accompanied by an exponential growth in journals. In recent years, the credibility of scientific publications, particularly in the biomedical fields, has been challenged by the perception of financial conflicts of interest involving both scientists and their academic institutions. Woolf, a sociologist of science, has summarized the problem:
In modern science the disinterestedness of scientists has been linked to their objectivity and thus to the reliability of their research. Although most people recognize that scientists are unlikely to be completely neutral with respect to their studies, they are skeptical about scientists who appear as advocates for certain positions rather than as objective presenters of fact [citation]. In several allegations of research misconduct, there have been charges that apparent financial conflicts of interest have distorted the knowledge base on which other decisions depend (Woolf 1994, 90)
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Krimsky, S., Rothenberg, L.S., Stott, P., Kyle, G. (1999). Scientific Journals and their Authors’ Financial Interests. In: Caulfield, T.A., Williams-Jones, B. (eds) The Commercialization of Genetic Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4713-6_7
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