Authors, ghosts, damned lies, and statisticians.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Research and Publication Ethics in Academia.Healthcare informatics research · 2020
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2. Author contributions to ecological publications: What does it mean to be an author in modern ecological research?PloS one · 2017
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3. Publication planning: promoting an ethics of transparency and integrity in biomedical research.International journal of clinical practice · 2015
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4. From Research to Practice: Which Research Strategy Contributes More to Clinical Excellence? Comparing High-Volume versus High-Quality Biomedical Research.PloS one · 2015
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5. Authorship ethics in global health research partnerships between researchers from low or middle income countries and high income countries.BMC medical ethics · 2014
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6. 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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7. Ghostwriting: the dirty little secret of medical publishing that just got bigger.PLoS medicine · 2009
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8. What should be done to tackle ghostwriting in the medical literature?PLoS medicine · 2009
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9. Do medical journals provide clear and consistent guidelines on authorship?MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine · 2007
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Corrections and comments

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  Ghost authorship in industry-initiated randomised trials.2007

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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