Servicio de Neurología, Instituto de Neurociencias, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España.
Neurologia. 2011 Jun;26(5):257-61. doi: 10.1016/j.nrl.2010.12.001. Epub 2011 Feb 26.
Relationship between ghost-authors and medical writers has been debated, even arriving to citizens. Accusation that through ghost-authors, market messages are introduced in medical journals has been suggested.
This paper carried out an analysis of ghost-authors and their application to medical writers and discusses the intellectual authorship of the scientific articles, as well as the relationship with research groups and pharmaceutical industry, as well as the position of journal.
The role of medical workers is advisable because improves communication of articles. Using authorship criteria, medical writers cannot be considered as ghost-authors. Misconducts for medical writers should be pursued but also those from editors and authors. Responsibility of articles belongs to authors who are responsible of false conclusions obtained from data research and to the editor in the case of the paper was published.
幽灵作者与医学作者之间的关系一直备受争议，甚至引起了公众的关注。有人指责通过幽灵作者在医学期刊中引入市场信息。
本文对幽灵作者及其在医学作者中的应用进行了分析，并讨论了科学文章的知识作者身份，以及与研究小组和制药行业的关系，以及期刊的立场。
医务人员的作用是可取的，因为这可以提高文章的交流。使用作者标准，医学作者不能被视为幽灵作者。应追究医学作者的不当行为，但也应追究编辑和作者的不当行为。文章的责任属于那些从数据研究中得出错误结论的作者，以及在文章发表的情况下的编辑。
