Ghostwriting: The Dirty Little Secret of Medical Publishing That Just Got Bigger
Open Access
- 8 September 2009
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 6 (9) , e1000156
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000156
Abstract
In an academic_editorial highlighting the 1,500 documents made public after PLoS Medicine's intervention in a court case, the PLoS Medicine academic_editors call for strong action to be taken to eradicate this practice.Keywords
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