“…Across disciplines, adding undeserving authors or excluding deserving authors was considered unethical [14], [33], [36], [50], [68], [70], [71], [77], [90], [109], but was reported to be a practice by 10% to 89% of the respondents [18], [31], [41], [46], [50], [58], [65], [68], [75], [82], [85], [91], [96], [109], [114], [127]. Prestige was an important factor in deciding on authorship, as articles from more prestigious economics journals had more authors and fewer contributors in the acknowledgement then those from less prestigious journals [76].…”