BMJ  2006;332 (6 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7549.0-a

Academics may be losing control of clinical research

Academic affiliations remain prominent among authors of the most frequently cited medical research. However, such research is increasingly funded by industry, often exclusively so. Patsopoulos and colleagues (p 1061) identified the authors' affiliations and funding sources of the 289 most frequently cited articles of the Web of Knowledge database. Sixty per cent of the articles published during 1994-2003 and cited by the end of 2004 were funded by government or public funding, but the proportion of articles funded by industry alone increased over time; 18 of the 32 most cited trials published after 1999 were funded by industry alone.

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