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Editorial
. 2011 Oct 25:343:d6223.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.d6223.

Honorary and ghost authorship

Patricia K Baskin, Robert A Gross
Editorial

Honorary and ghost authorship

Patricia K Baskin et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Has not substantially declined, suggesting that standards need tightening up

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: PKB, executive editor of Neurology, is employed by the American Academy of Neurology; RAG, editor in chief of Neurology, receives support from the American Academy of Neurology for editorial duties and is on the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical Center; additional support comes from the National Institutes of Health NIH/NCRR (2 UL1 RR024160-06, 2 KL2 RR024136-06, 2 TL1 RR024135-06) for educational activities; the authors espouse the policies developed for Neurology in this editorial; PKB received reimbursement for travel expenses to two meetings in 2011 of the International Publication Planning Association, an association of industry professionals sponsored by Pharmaceutical Education Associates LLC, to present Neurology’s authorship policies; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

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