Plagiarism with a difference

How can a professor of medicine claim 800 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed articles in his career when most research academics struggle to write five a year? This is the question posed by Sergio Sismondo in a recent issue of the Canadian journal, Academic Matters. Sismondo, a professor of philosophy at Queen's University, Ontario, said the answer lies at the heart of shonky pharmaceutical promotion activities dressed up as academic publishing. The international publishing giant Elsevier has recently been rocked by revelations of nine big pharma-sponsored Australian publications that were...