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How Industry Uses the ICMJE Guidelines to Manipulate Authorship—And How They Should Be Revised

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  • Alastair Matheson

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Based upon his 15 years of experience as a medical writer, Alastair Matheson argues that rather than obstructing industry, the current ICMJE authorship guidelines have become its preferred tool for misattributing authorship.

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  • Alastair Matheson, 2011. "How Industry Uses the ICMJE Guidelines to Manipulate Authorship—And How They Should Be Revised," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(8), pages 1-5, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmed00:1001072
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001072
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    1. Lana Bošnjak & Ana Marušić, 2012. "Prescribed practices of authorship: review of codes of ethics from professional bodies and journal guidelines across disciplines," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 93(3), pages 751-763, December.
    2. Pedro Parreira & Liliana B. Sousa & Inês A. Marques & Paulo Santos-Costa & Sara Cortez & Filipa Carneiro & Arménio Cruz & Anabela Salgueiro-Oliveira, 2020. "Study Protocol for Two-Steps Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial: Pre-Clinical Usability Tests for a New Double-Chamber Syringe," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(22), pages 1-11, November.
    3. Amrollah Shamsi & Rafaela Carolina Silva & Ting Wang & N. Vasantha Raju & Karen Santos-d’Amorim, 2022. "A grey zone for bibliometrics: publications indexed in Web of Science as anonymous," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(10), pages 5989-6009, October.

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