The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, transmits the agents of dengue and other arboviruses, resulting in an estimated 390 million disease cases per year, which justifies control trials aimed at vector population suppression. Many studies evaluate different control approaches, but only a subset are published in peer-reviewed journals. The lack of publishing results, or publication bias, could be due to many reasons. One source of publication bias could result from a conflict of interest (COI), such as being employed by the company conducting the trial or having a financial conflict tied to intellectual property. We conducted a systematic literature review of trials controlling Ae. aegypti to test the hypothesis that author COI influence the reported suppression of the vector. We found 39 published studies from 2010-2020 that met inclusion criteria and extracted metrics regarding COI and Ae. aegypti population suppression. Our first discovery is that some journals either do not ask authors about COI or, if present, do not include those disclosures with published articles. We also noticed inconsistencies in authors disclosing a conflict which did not adhere to the internationally recognized definition of COI. We will present the results comparing Ae .aegypti population suppression for studies that either report a COI or not. These results are a call to action that all journals should require authors to acknowledge a COI, and all disclosures, whether conflicts exist or not, should be published in the article. Also, journals should enforce adherence to the internationally recognized definition of a COI.
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