Ghostwriting is not a latest trend. It has been following from many years, Most of the politicians, officials, Celebrities, Executives are having their own ghostwriter to write speech or a statement for them. *What is Ghostwriting?* Ghostwriting is a paid service, a Ghostwriter will write for others for money or for other complements on behalf of a person who paid money for him/her. *Is ghostwriting Plagiarism?* Ghostwriting is not comes under plagiarism, However it’s a constitute fraud and unfair. *How Ghostwriting affect for academics?* 1. Ghostwriting will decrease the quality of a research 2. Unsuitable person will get a job or awards for his/her writings but actually which has been written by someone else 3. It’s make unhealthy competition among the competitors 4. It will affect the true researcher in case of API scores 5. ‘Wrong person’ will get selected for ‘Right position’ for their paid services *Best Regards* *Siddu M. Huded* *MLISc, PGDLAN, **UGC-NET, K-SET* *Assistant Librarian,* *Azim Premji University Library, BENGALURU (KA)Contact Number: 9538462949* *https://liswebblog.blogspot.in/ <https://liswebblog.blogspot.in/>* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.