Influence of author's affiliation and funding sources on the results of cohort studies on occupational cancer

Rollin, Laétitia; Griffon, Nicolas; Darmoni, Stéfan Jacques; Géhanno, Jean-François

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“…Previous studies that explored the relationship between funding sources and scientific research have focused mainly on the research results. For example, many scholars have investigated whether the research receiving funding produces results that are favorable to the funders [2][3][4]. However, few works have examined whether the funding source is related to the research frame itself.…”

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Funding sources and breast cancer research frame

2020

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This study aims to analyze the formation of the frame of breast cancer research. To test our hypothesis that the research frame depends on the funding sources, we collected the abstracts of 48,448 breast cancer research papers from PubMed and applied structural topic modeling, word network analysis, and LASSO logistic regression to the data. In particular, we analyzed the relationship between funding sources and the molecularization of breast cancer knowledge. The results show that government-funded research is likely to have molecular objects or population as the unit of interest, whereas the research not funded by the government is likely to have individual patients as the unit of interest in relation to specific treatments. This phenomenon is attributed to the different interests of government institutions and the private sector. This study improves our understanding of molecularization and medical knowledge production.

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Funding sources and breast cancer research frame

2020

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“…Institutions expect their faculty to accurately report the university name and address as 'lack of care' will affect institutional visibility (Bador & Lafouge, 2005). Reported affiliations have been used to assess the association between author affiliation and study results, as in a cohort study on occupational health publications which found that, when authors have a public affiliation, they report cancer more frequently than industry-affiliated authors (Rollin, Griffon, Darmoni, & Gehanno, 2016). However, affiliations are not all born equal.…”

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Misrepresentation of institutional affiliations: The results from an exploratory case study of Chilean authors

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University ranking systems and the publish‐or‐perish dictum are driving universities and researchers around the world to increase their research productivity and publication outputs. There is no regulated checking of author affiliations as authors are expected to only include affiliations to universities that have contributed substantially to the research conducted and to the published manuscript. Our study aims to establish whether author affiliations can be validated and if there is evidence of misrepresentation from authors who report multiple institutional affiliations. We conducted an exploratory case study on Scopus‐indexed articles for 2016, searching all authors who reported multiple institutional affiliations in which at least one of them was to a Chilean university. Of 4,961 author records with multiple affiliations, we were unable to validate 38% of the affiliations to a Chilean university by checking the institutional websites. This affected 40% of articles and was most prevalent in health sciences and for private, new, universities. ORCID identifiers were not suitable for checking affiliations as there was low use of them: only 14% of the multiple‐affiliated authors. The inability to validate affiliations might indicate misconduct, and if it is an indication of misrepresentation, it could have profound implications for many stakeholders (universities, journals, ranking houses, funders, and higher education policy‐makers) due to inflated publication counts and under‐reporting the actual input from individual institutions.

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“…Industry-funded research, especially occupational and environmental health research, has been a topic of concern for decades, because it has often been found to be biased to support industry interests, according to numerous peer-reviewed papers, e.g., [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ]. Moreover, several peer-reviewed papers have raised concerns about bias in industry-funded research on the effects of exposure to radio frequency radiation [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ].…”

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2021

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Influence of author's affiliation and funding sources on the results of cohort studies on occupational cancer

Abstract: Industry affiliations of authors or industry support of studies are associated with the results of published studies on occupational cancer. The underlying mechanisms warrant further investigation.

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Funding sources and breast cancer research frame

Funding sources and breast cancer research frame

Misrepresentation of institutional affiliations: The results from an exploratory case study of Chilean authors

Reply to Brzozek et al. Comment on “Choi et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8079”

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