Failings in COPE's guidelines to editors, and recommendations for improvement.

Perezgonzalez JD23/11/201623/11/20162016https://hdl.handle.net/10179/10388Letter highlighting failings in COPE's Guidelines to editors and proposing recommendations for improvement. The main recommendation is to create appropriate guidelines for dealing with fully disclosed (potential) conflicts of interest. COPE sought the topic as relevant and included a session on the topic as part of COPE's Forum (Feb 3, 2017; http://publicationethics.org/forum-discussion-topic-comments-please-7).ethicsethics review processesconflict of interestcompeting interestFailings in COPE's guidelines to editors, and recommendations for improvement.internet10.6084/m9.figshare.4248938286069Massey_Dark