Frances Westwick
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Frances Westwick works for myDr.com.au,[1] 'an Australian healthcare website dedicated to providing Australian consumers with the most comprehensive and relevant health information resource in Australia'. It is a project of MIMS Consumer Health Group which is a division of the global healthcare publishing company, UBM Medica.[2] Westwick was the Editorial Director at Excerpta Medica Australia in 2000, around the time the publisher started getting paid by drug companies to produce journals which an article in the life sciences magazine, The Scientist, called "fake".[3][4]
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See Excerpta Medica for the story of the "fake" journals.
Screengrab from Excerpta Medica's website from 2000
Excerpta MedicaRetrieved from the Internet Archive of 23 June 2000 on 26 August 2009.
Notes
- ↑ CHIK Services' Health-e-Nation 2007. Health e-Wellness Conference 2007 Accessed 19 November 2009.
- ↑ myDr.com.au About Us Accessed 19 November 2009.
- ↑ Bob Grant, Elsevier published 6 fake journals, TheScientist.com, 7 May 2009, accessed 20 Nov 2009
- ↑ Sheldon Krimsky. 'Looks like an independently refereed journal? Don't be too sure; In medical publishing, the line between editorial and advertorial has become dangerously blurred', New Scientist, June 6, 2009, Comment and Analysis; Pg. 24-25
