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$20,000

$20,000 -- cost per ghostwritten review article for DesignWrite (Wyeth publication program) (2010)

2010  · PLoS Medicine

Review articles produced as part of DesignWrite's ghostwriting publication program for Wyeth cost $20,000 each.

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2010
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DesignWrite (Wyeth publication program)
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95
PLoS Medicine Primary Tier B
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Ghostwriters in the sky
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 18 September 2010 If I tell you that Katie Price did not, necessarily, write her own book, this is not a revelation. From academics I have slightly higher expectations, but now the legal system has spat out another skip full of documents: this time, we get a new …
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DesignWrite (Wyeth publication program): $20,000 cost per ghostwritten review article. Source: PLoS Medicine (2010). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/designwrite-review-article-cost-2010
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