Sometimes they are paid by drug companies to place articles in journals to support the company's products.

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Some have called for journals to identify ghostwritten articles and ban their authors from future publication.

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Editors of the journals that published the studies did not know about the companies' involvement.

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Researchers questioned authors of nine hundred articles published last year in six top medical journals.

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They found that twenty-one percent of the papers published in those journals had honorary authors.

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Three researchers at the University of California at San Francisco presented information about a drug company's marketing campaign that included placing research articles in medical journals.

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Last week, we discussed one problem for medical journals: the question of authorship.

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