{"id":18792,"date":"2014-02-14T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/video\/authorship-and-conflicts-of-interest-from-a-journal-editors-standpoint\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:09:43","slug":"authorship-and-conflicts-of-interest-from-a-journal-editors-standpoint","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/authorship-and-conflicts-of-interest-from-a-journal-editors-standpoint","title":{"rendered":"Authorship and conflicts of interest from a journal editor&#8217;s standpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">This 5-minute video presents Bruce Dancik&#8217;s take on the much-debated issues of authorship and conflicts of interest. Dancik advocates complete disclosure in these matters, and guides authors as to how and where they should declare the details pertaining to authorship, acknowledgements, and potential conflicts of interest. He also shares his opinion on which of the contributors to a particular work should be given the status of an author, and who should simply be acknowledged for their contribution.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This video is a part of an interview series in which Donald Samulack, President, US Operations, Editage, Cactus Communications, speaks to Bruce P. 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