(Last updated March 2024)
All editors responsible for recommending or making publication decisions are requested to disclose on an annual basis any potential conflict of interest, including current or recent financial relationships with any commercial entity whose products or services may be contained in the journal content.
The following competing interests were disclosed:
Simon JS Cameron – Financial activities: research grants from research bodies of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding council, and from UK Government organisations. Research funding and support from Agrisearch Ltd and Waters Corporation. Involvement with other peer-reviewed publications: Associate Editor for Microbiome.
Benoit Chassaing – Financial activities: personal fees from Nestlé, Procter and Nobles and Qiagen. Involvement with other peer-reviewed publications: Associate Editor for Gut Microbes and Microbiome.
Sandrine Claus – Financial activities: founder and CEO of Starfish bioscience, a start-up developing microbiome-based biostimulants, and advisor for the biotech start-up NBX developing a microbiome-derived medical product for Alzheimer's disease. Personal fees: CosmosID, Clinical Microbiomics, Lesaffre. I am an inventor on the following patents: US 2023/0330158 A1; EP 4259825 A1; FR 3126990 B1; EP 4225893 A1; EP 3989988 C0; US 2023/0190824 A1; US 2023/0167401 A1; US 2023/0131906 A1; WO 2023/041712 A1; FR 3095339 A1; FR 3093642 A1.
Marwa Hassan – Intellectual property: Glycopeptide antibiotic constructs patent, US application number: 16467634 (EP Patent EP3554529A1). Involvement with other peer-reviewed publications: Associate Editor, Critical Reviews in Microbiology 2022; Editorial board member, NPJ Antimicrobials and Resistance, 2020. Member and champion of the Microbiology Society.
Matam Vijay-Kumar – Involvement with other peer-reviewed publications: Editorial Board member for American Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology.
The following editors reported no competing interests:
- David Durgan
- Luigina Romani
- Jasenka Zubcevic
Bioscientifica staff and freelancers working on the journal reported no conflicts of interest. Article authors' declarations are stated in each journal article. Referees must disclose any competing interests before agreeing to review any submission. For more information on the journal’s ethical policy, please read the ethical guidelines.
This policy follows the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
