Results
Of the 82 eligible US physician editors, 61 (74.4%) and 45 (54.9%) received non-research payments from the healthcare industry for the periods 2014-2022 and 2020-2022, respectively. Meanwhile, 22.4% and 40.3% received direct research payments and associated research funding over the nine years. The total payment amounts to the editors were $3,996,131 in non-research payments, $933,813 in direct research payments, and $39,394,410 in associated research funding. The majority of US physician editors received non-research payments between 2020 and 2022 in the Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Clinical Infections Diseases, Journal of Travel Medicine, and Journal of Infectious Diseases. Only two journals had conflicts of interest policies for their journal editors available on the journal webpage. Additionally, none of the journals disclosed the editors’ conflicts of interest.