Questions tagged [conflict-of-interest]
Conflict of interest exists when an author, reviewer, supervisor, or editor has financial or personal relationships that could inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties).
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Is an employment Conflict of Interest necessary when redundant with my Affiliation?
I am a full time employee at company XYZ, and will be co-author with university researchers on a paper utilizing one of my company's products. My affiliation will therefore be listed as "XYZ.&...
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Seeking Advice on Authorship Dispute [duplicate]
My supervisor, who had no contribution to my thesis work, instructed me to write a paper from it for clearance. I provided a draft, but he submitted it to a conference with himself as the first author ...
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Professor seeking to sell independently created software [closed]
I am a public-sector university teacher in Brazil. For the last few years, I have been independently working on teaching software, which I firmly believe has excellent commercial value in academia and ...
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Reviewing paper (probably) written by mentor?
I am a grad student reviewing papers for a small workshop at an upcoming conference. I am fairly certain one of the papers assigned to me is written by my direct research mentor, with whom I'm doing ...
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Is it appropriate to provide editorial oversight for a paper authored by someone who plans to move to your institution?
I see some journal editors handle the papers authored by their colleagues. It is usually not allowed to handle papers authored by colleagues in the same institution. After a deeper check of one paper, ...
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Conflict of interests of reviewing paper if I have talked to the author
I found an interesting poster during a workshop, and I had an engaging communication with the authors (even in a banquet). They told me that their work was just submitted to a journal.
Quite ...
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What should you do when your professor disagrees with your research direction?
I am a graduate student working to get my master's degree, but my professor and I have differences in research directions. While his personality is very strong, I don't think he is capable enough in ...
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would collaborating with department head causing conflict of interest?
Department head usually could be in charge of many things, such as hiring decision, support of tenure applications, invitation of reviewers of tenure, forming hiring committee etc.
In general how ...
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Is it unethical to not disclose relationship when applying to same group
My girlfriend and I are applying to the same PhD program and are interested in the same group. The group is quite small and it is likely that we will be working together a lot, I am unsure if ...
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As a private tutor, is it ethical to recommend the student take more classes?
I'm tutoring a student. Unfortunately he's not very good; for example, he has trouble with basic manipulations that one would expect a student of his level to have mastered. He scored 15% in a recent ...
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Contacted by COI PC
I have a little bit of a weird situation. In a submission to conference (which is anonymous), I marked a member from the PC as conflict of interest (COI) due to personal reasons (rivalry). The chairs ...
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Can a husband be a corresponding author in a wife's research publication during her Ph.D.?
I recently observed that a faculty (husband) was a corresponding author in all the publications of his wife (first author) while she was doing her Ph.D. in the same department. Although the wife had a ...
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Professor nominated for award asks for a recommendation from a Dean, who is also on the Award Committee. Ok or No?
Is it conflict of interest when a faculty member who is a nominee for a university award competition, asks for a letter of recommendation from a Dean, who is also on the review committee that decides ...
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Do I need to declare conflict of interest as a lower level contractor at the organization?
I am writing a paper about whether in the United States, referees in my sport are biased towards players with certain attributes.
I am also employed as a referee in this sport and have credentials ...
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Lead Authorship Conflict
I’m working on a paper with two colleagues. It all started out with a broad idea that they had. They were coming to me, asking me to do the data analysis (survey data). At the beginning I had the lead ...
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