Table 2.

General characteristics of the journals’ policies on reporting of funding information (N = 155)

	n (%)
Policy is specific to:
The journal	143 (92)
The publisher	5 (3)
Both	7 (5)
Reported procedures on dealing with non-reporting or under-reporting of funding	0 (0)
Submission form of funding information
Online as part of the submission process	114 (74)
In the body of the manuscript	97 (63)
In a file separate from the manuscript	24 (16)
In a free-standing form	7 (5)
Not specified	6 (4)
Distinguished between “funder” and “sponsor”a	18 (12)

^aSponsor: an individual, academic institution, company or governmental agency that takes responsibility for and initiates a clinical investigation. Funder: an individual or organization that provides money for a study