Table 2.

Five key features of a global public registry for researcher conflicts of interest.

Key feature	Description
Enforceability	Mandates from publishers, funding bodies, and institutions to require up-to-date details in the registry prior to publication, funding, or as a condition of employment.
Transparency	A transparent, archived record of changes, including information on the timing and authorship of entry modifications.
Interoperability	The ability for institutions, companies, and other organizations to push changes into the registry and automatically update researcher records.
Taxonomy	A consistent taxonomy for describing financial and non-financial conflicts of interest.
Automated disclosures	The ability to automatically generate statements about relevant disclosures for inclusion in abstracts and published articles according to templates specified by individual journals.