Ghostwriting in medical journals is equivalent to fraud, argue lawyers who are calling for tougher sanctions for academics who get caught with their name on article they haven’t authored.
Writing in PLoS medicine, the Canadian experts said ghost-writing was a “disturbing violation of academic integrity standards”, but that medical journals had not embraced recommendations to police article submissions more aggressively.
Furthermore, medical boards and academic institutions had so far failed to issue serious sanctions in the rare cases when an organisation looked into allegations, they said.
In light of this they called for a “firm legal response”. The practice of getting academics to add their names to papers written by medical writers could be deterred by imposing a...
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