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Record W3133495944 · doi:10.1080/21645515.2021.1879580

Is ‘conflict of interest’ a Misnomer? Managing interests in immunization research and evaluation

2021· article· en· W3133495944 on OpenAlexaff
Elisabeth McClymont, Jason Brophy, Vinita Dubey, Jeff Kwong, Samantha B. Meyer, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Scott A. Halperin, Shannon E. MacDonald, K. E. Simmons, Karina A. Top, Brian J. Ward, Manish Sadarangani

Bibliographic record

VenueHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityUniversity of WaterlooUniversity of British ColumbiaPublic Health OntarioBC Children's HospitalDalhousie UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of OttawaToronto Public HealthUniversity of AlbertaUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMisnomerTransparency (behavior)Conflict of interestPublic interestPublic relationsPolitical scienceBusinessLaw

Abstract

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Potential conflicts of interest in vaccine research can lead to negative consequences that undermine public trust and thereby put communities at risk. However, collaborations that may give rise to potential conflicts between interests can also greatly facilitate appropriate, scientifically robust, and timely vaccine development, implementation, and evaluation. At present, policies regarding the management of potential conflicts between interests are not ideal. To optimally manage interests in vaccine research, we recommend acknowledging all forms of interests and treating them all as relevant, developing appropriate collaborations, referring to all "conflicts of interest" simply as "interests" or "declarations," and promoting transparency through developing consistent reporting mechanisms.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.414
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.681
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Evaluation · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.586
Threshold uncertainty score0.722

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.4140.681
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0050.005
Science and technology studies0.0080.069
Scholarly communication0.0260.035
Open science0.0050.012
Research integrity0.0190.034
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.347
GPT teacher head0.472
Teacher spread0.125 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainEvaluation
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2021
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