Ghostwriting: the dirty little secret of medical publishing that just got bigger.
editorial · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 19901975.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000156 and PMC identifier 2734179.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
In an academic_editorial highlighting the 1,500 documents made public after <i>PLoS Medicine</i>'s intervention in a court case, the <i>PLoS Medicine</i> academic_editors call for strong action to be taken to eradicate this practice.
Medical subject headings
- Authorship
- Biomedical Research
- Drug Industry
- Editorial Policies
- Periodicals as Topic