Editorial roles

How our review roles are organized.

These are the review roles SupplementScore’s editorial process is built around. We have not yet published named reviewers for these roles. When volunteers with relevant credentials join and consent to be listed, their names, credentials, and conflict-of-interest declarations will appear here. Until then, content is published under the SupplementScore team; see who writes and reviews our content.

Independence: SupplementScore takes no industry funding, sponsorships, or affiliate revenue. Anyone who joins as a named reviewer will be asked to declare conflicts of interest, which will be published alongside their name.

Review roles

Editorial Lead

Editor-in-chief

Sets the editorial calendar, oversees scoring methodology updates, and signs off on every Tier 4 safety classification. Final reviewer on all "Changed our mind" entries.

Methodology Editor

Composite scoring

Maintains the six-dimension composite-score model. Reviews tier-promotion decisions and the Tier-1 citation gate. Author of the funder-policy classification scheme.

Pharmacology Editor

Drug interactions

Reviews every supplement-drug interaction entry against current pharmacology references. Maintains the per-molecule meds_detail layer and the 50+ medication category map.

Clinical Research Editor

Trial appraisal

Reviews methodological quality on cited RCTs and meta-analyses. Flags weak evidence, p-hacking concerns, and industry-funded outliers in the citation database.

Pediatric Editor

Kids & pregnancy

Reviews all Kids and Pregnancy/Fertility entries. Holds the standard for sensitive-population disclaimers and pediatric dosing safety.

Safety Editor

Tier 4 & recalls

Reviews FDA, EMA, MHRA, BfArM, TGA, and Health Canada recall and warning lists weekly. Final reviewer on the Top 10 most dangerous and Recent recalls sections.

How review actually works

Every supplement entry follows the same pipeline: draft → peer-reviewed source check → tier classification → safety review → publication → re-review on the published cadence. Tier 1 is every 30 days.

Tier-1 promotions require independent confirmation from a second reviewer using the methodology spec. Tier-4 (avoid) classifications require sign-off from the safety editor plus a documented evidence trail of recalls, withdrawals, or adverse-event reports.

When new evidence shifts our position on a supplement, the change is published on Changed our mind with the reasoning, the trigger paper, and the date.

Conflict of interest policy

Named reviewers, once listed, will complete an annual COI declaration published with their profile, and will be recused from any entry where they hold a current financial interest in a manufacturer or distributor of that supplement.

Authors of cited studies are flagged: every citation in the database is tagged with a funder type (public / industry / mixed / none disclosed) and a COI flag (true / false / unknown). See the funder policy for details.

Apply to join

We are looking for credentialed volunteer reviewers. Open roles emphasize specialties that round out our coverage — currently endocrinology, sports medicine, and complementary & alternative medicine pharmacology.

Apply to join the board →

Volunteer roles. Time commitment is flexible (~4 hours/month).

SupplementScore is independent and takes no industry funding. This page will list named bios, credentials, and ORCID/LinkedIn links as reviewers join and consent to publication. No page on the site currently carries a “medically reviewed” label, and nothing here is individual medical advice.