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Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies
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Medical journals have become dependent on the pharmaceutical industry for their survival, which can have a corrupting influence on their content, argues Smith, the former editor of the BMJ.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Smith, R.
- Venue
- PLoS Medicine
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2005-05-17
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- e138
- ISSN
- 1549-1277 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-1676
- OpenAlex
- W2158221019
- Cited by
- 498
- References
- 24
- FWCI
- 29.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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