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ghost authorship: a standalone construct

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Research ethics

unacknowledged writers, often working for industry, who drafted a paper but are not named as authors.

In research ethics, ghost authorship refers to unacknowledged writers, often working for industry, who drafted a paper but are not named as authors. This meaning comes from Gøtzsche (2007) in PLoS Medicine.[1]

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ghost3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs industry1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Gøtzsche, P. C., Hróbjartsson, A., Johansen, H. K., Haahr, M. T., Altman, D. G., & Chan, A. (2007). Ghost Authorship in Industry-Initiated Randomised Trials. PLoS Medicine, 4(1), e19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040019

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