Interface between authorship, industry and science in the domain of therapeutics. Healy, D. & Cattell, D. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 183(1):22–27, July, 2003.
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Background Changes in the character of medical authorship. Aims To compare the impact of industry-linked and non-industry linked articles. Method We compared articles on sertraline being coordinated by a medical writing agency with articles not coordinated in this way. We calculated numbers of Medline-listed articles per author, journal impactfactors, literature profiles and citation rates of both sets of articles. Results Non-agency-linked articles on sertraline had an average of 2.95 authors per article, a mean length of 3.4 pages, a mean Medline listing of 37 articles per author (95% CI 27–47) and a mean literature profile of 283 per article (95% CI 130–435). Agency-linked articles on sertraline had an average of 6.6 authors per article, a mean length of 10.7 pages, a mean Medline listing of 70 articles per author (95% CI 62–79) and a mean literature profile of 1839 per article (95% CI 1076-2602). The citation rate for agency articles was 20.2 (95% CI 13.4–27.0) and for non-agency articles it was 3.7 (95% CI 3.3–8.1). Conclusions The literature profiles and citation rates of industry-linked and non-industry-linked articles differ. The emerging style of authorship in industry-linked articles can deliver good-quality articles, but it raises concerns for the scientific base of therapeutics.
@article{healy_interface_2003,
	title = {Interface between authorship, industry and science in the domain of therapeutics},
	volume = {183},
	issn = {0007-1250, 1472-1465},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/interface-between-authorship-industry-and-science-in-the-domain-of-therapeutics/C6C9C63588A474F6CF6CA27BA2BD43A6},
	doi = {10.1192/bjp.183.1.22},
	abstract = {Background
Changes in the character of medical authorship.


Aims
To compare the impact of industry-linked and non-industry linked articles.


Method
We compared articles on sertraline being coordinated by a medical writing agency with articles not coordinated in this way. We calculated numbers of Medline-listed articles per author, journal impactfactors, literature profiles and citation rates of both sets of articles.


Results
Non-agency-linked articles on sertraline had an average of 2.95 authors per article, a mean length of 3.4 pages, a mean Medline listing of 37 articles per author (95\% CI 27–47) and a mean literature profile of 283 per article (95\% CI 130–435). Agency-linked articles on sertraline had an average of 6.6 authors per article, a mean length of 10.7 pages, a mean Medline listing of 70 articles per author (95\% CI 62–79) and a mean literature profile of 1839 per article (95\% CI 1076-2602). The citation rate for agency articles was 20.2 (95\% CI 13.4–27.0) and for non-agency articles it was 3.7 (95\% CI 3.3–8.1).


Conclusions
The literature profiles and citation rates of industry-linked and non-industry-linked articles differ. The emerging style of authorship in industry-linked articles can deliver good-quality articles, but it raises concerns for the scientific base of therapeutics.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2019-10-07},
	journal = {The British Journal of Psychiatry},
	author = {Healy, David and Cattell, Dinah},
	month = jul,
	year = {2003},
	keywords = {8 Ignorance and funding bias, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
	pages = {22--27},
}

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