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

Alastair Matheson

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001072

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

Alastair Matheson

* E-mail: amathesonresearch@gmail.com

Affiliation Independent Consultant, London, United Kingdom and Toronto, Canada
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How Industry Uses the ICMJE Guidelines to Manipulate Authorship—And How They Should Be Revised

Alastair Matheson

Published: August 9, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001072

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ICMJE must act on this

Posted by Klemperer on 03 Sep 2011 at 10:26 GMT

high importance for scientific integrity; for me an eye-opener

No competing interests declared.

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ICMJE must act on this

Posted by Klemperer on 03 Sep 2011 at 10:26 GMT