Ghost Management: How Much of the Medical Literature Is Shaped Behind the Scenes by the Pharmaceutical Industry?
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- 25 September 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (9), e286
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040286
Abstract
Sismondo discusses how pharmaceutical companies and their agents shape multiple steps in the research, analysis, writing, and publication of articles.Keywords
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