Journal Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities

Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities include any financial interests, direct or indirect, that might raise questions regarding bias in the your work, conclusions, implications or perspectives stated – including relevant commercial or other sources of funding for each individual author(s). These must be declared – whether or not they actually had an influence – to allow for informed decisions.

Conflict of Interests  

(To be included with the Title page and uploaded separately, as a supplementary file)

THMT requires all authors, reviewers and editors to declare financial and non-financial relationships and activities to the journal’s editorial office to ensure transparency is maintained. The journal publishes relationships and activities of members on the Journal Relationships & Activities page.

Note: Where an Editorial Board Member is author they must declare this in the Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities  section on the submitted manuscript.

Public trust in the scientific process and credibility of published articles hinges in part, on the transparency and trust publishers and authors are able to insure from collecting and reporting research, to writing research manuscripts, peer review, editing and publication of work. Professional judgements must not be influences by financial gain. Purposeful failure to disclose relationships and activities is a form of misconduct. Authors must disclose all as per journal requirements and forms. The ICMJE has developed a Disclosure Form to facilitate and standardize authors’ disclosures. Authors are required to submit this form when a manuscript is submitted.

Examples include:

• Involvement in a business (such as ownership, employment, contracting or speaking for) that would financially gain from the publication of the work
• Rivalry in the same research area
• Potential career advancement based on the publication of the research
• Being asked to assess the work of a close colleague or relative for the journal

The Editor may ask for further information relating to disclosures.

Editors and reviewers are also required to declare financial and non-financial relationships and activities and may be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.