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Prevalence of ghostwriting spurs calls for transparency

2009; Canadian Medical Association; Volume: 181; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1503/cmaj.109-3036

1488-2329

R. Collier,

Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

It’s no secret that the names at the top of articles published in medical journals aren’t always a good indication of who actually wrote them. What may be surprising to many, though, is just how prevalent ghost-writing appears to have become. Recently unveiled court documents, for example, show