I have presupposed a lot of questions about academic work, but the question of ghostwriting an academic paper (as opposed to a medical one, I guess)... it has never even crossed my mind. Well, it has now. https://twitter.com/doctorwhy/status/1066977364779982848 …
It's been a thing for a while in the pharmaceutical industry, although there's a lot of debate about what constitutes ghost-writinghttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190555/ …