Unreported Author Affiliation Conflicts of Interest in Applied Behavior Analysis Research: A Real or Imagined Problem?

A recent study, which considered an author as having a conflict of interest if employed as a clinical provider or a training consultant to a clinical provider, found that such conflicts of interest were ubiquitous in articles involving participants with autism and published in behavior-analytic journals. Behavior analysts should seriously consider the importance of these, and other, conflicts of interest, and ensure that significant ones are routinely reported.