Many medical journals lack ghostwriting policies

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most major medical journals don’t spell out how they handle the omission from a published study’s author list of a person who substantially contributed to the work, according to a new study from Spain. So called ghostwriting raises concerns about the validity of research findings because it can involve researchers submitting as their own work an article that was largely drafted by a pharmaceutical company’s paid writers, for example. …