How ghost-writing threatens the credibility of medical knowledge and medical journals

Abstract

The past couple of years have seen some shocking exposes of violations of authorship in medical papers which suggest that one of the most important tenets in medical publishing – what it means to be named as an author on a paper – may not actually be as well accepted as previously believed. In

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