Ghost writing initiated by commercial companies.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Self-citation policies and journal self-citation rate among Critical Care Medicine journals.Journal of intensive care · 2021
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2. The Second Mediterranean Seminar on Science Writing, Editing and Publishing (SWEP - 2018), Sarajevo, December 8th, 2018.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2018
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3. Ghostwriters in the scientific world.The Pan African medical journal · 2018
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4. Ghost busting-taking the sheet off the ghost.Rheumatology international · 2016
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5. Ghost busting--taking the sheet off the ghost.Clinical rheumatology · 2016
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6. Ghost busting--taking the sheet off the ghost.Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2016
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7. Awareness and enforcement of guidelines for publishing industry-sponsored medical research among publication professionals: the Global Publication Survey.BMJ open · 2014
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8. How industry uses the ICMJE guidelines to manipulate authorship--and how they should be revised.PLoS medicine · 2011
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9. Exorcising ghostwriting…. Ghostwriting could potentially have serious repercussions for science and should therefore be treated as research misconduct.EMBO reports · 2011
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10. Legal remedies for medical ghostwriting: imposing fraud liability on guest authors of ghostwritten articles.PLoS medicine · 2010
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11. Open Medicine's ghost and guest authorship policy.Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal · 2010
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12. Transgression in scientific communication.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2010
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13. Five years before the masthead: our journey with the Journal of General Internal Medicine.Journal of general internal medicine · 2009
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14. Ghostwriting: the dirty little secret of medical publishing that just got bigger.PLoS medicine · 2009
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15. What should be done to tackle ghostwriting in the medical literature?PLoS medicine · 2009
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16. Medical ghost-writing.Mens sana monographs · 2008
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17. Ghost authorship in industry-initiated randomised trials.PLoS medicine · 2007
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18. Comments on "The corporate author".Journal of general internal medicine · 2005
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19. A concern that drug companies cannot ignore.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2005
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20. Scientific discourse, corporate ghostwriting, journal policy, and public trust.Journal of general internal medicine · 2005
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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