"At a recent cardiology conference in New Delhi, the cardiologist Deepak Natarajan raised the concern that commercial were corrupting medical journals ... Natarajan cited “manipulated” publications in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) as one example to support his view. His comments were met with silence and an air of indignation. Natarajan’s medical colleagues were stunned, disbelieving, and then, angry. Their response stemmed in part from the NEJM’s reputation as the premier medical journal in the world. The NEJM has the highest impact of any medical journal and physicians tend to see the NEJM – to use Natarajan’s words – as “the holy grail of publishing” ... Physicians wear their NEJM publications as a badge of prestige given the journal’s reputation and influence. But as Natarajan noted, so do research sponsors who compete to have their research studies published in the NEJM to influence prescribing habits of physicians and increase drug market share. Journals can profit handsomely from research sponsors buying reprints of their studies to distribute to physicians. And the NEJM does not make public what it earns from reprints."
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