Variables Values
Total amount of payments, $ 13,993,788
Mean payments per author (standard deviation), $ 49,274 (81,146)
Median payments per author (interquartile range), $ 15,255 (1,138 – 58,737)
Maximum, $ 616,579
Authors with payments (N=284), n (%)
Any payments
236 (83.1)
>$10,000
159 (56.0)
>$50,000
80 (28.2)
>$100,000
46 (16.2)
>$250,000
13 (4.6)
Top 5 companies making the largest payment amounts (%), $
Eisai
1,857,121 (13.3)
Takeda Pharmaceutical
1,434,193 (10.2)
Daiichi Sankyo
1,416,524 (10.1)
Sumitomo Pharma
1,123,221 (8.0)
Novartis Pharma
1,060,114 (7.6)