Guest authorship, a form of ghost writing, constitutes legal fraud

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 02:30 in Psychology & Sociology

"Guest authorship is a disturbing violation of academic integrity standards, which form the basis of scientific reliability" state two law experts in a robust attack on this unethical practice in a policy article in this week's PLoS Medicine—a practice which the authors also argue constitutes legal fraud.

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