Authorship problems in scholarly journals: considerations for authors, peer reviewers and editors

Gasparyan, Armen Yuri; Ayvazyan, Lilit; Kitas, George D.

doi:10.1007/s00296-012-2582-2

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“…In spite of this, authorship is seen as an underserved area of education in the responsible conduct of research [4,22]. To avoid inappropriate authorship, all those involved, research institutions, authors, editors and publishers, must understand the importance of fair crediting and take measures to ensure adherence to current guidelines and requirements [2,23]. It is, however, discouraging that an intervention study among medical students found that instruction about formal authorship criteria had no effect on students’ deciding about authorship dilemmas [24].…”

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Authorship: attitudes and practice among Norwegian researchers

2014

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BackgroundAttitudes to, and practices of, scientific authorship vary. We have studied this variation among researchers in a university hospital and medical school in Norway.MethodsWe invited all faculty, researchers and PhD students at Oslo University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (approximately 2700) by e-mail to answer a web-based questionnaire in January 2013. We asked the researchers to report their authorship experiences and to score their agreement with, and ability to practice according to, 13 statements on authorship qualifications and criteria on a five-point Likert scale (1 = completely agree, 5 = completely disagree). The statements were taken from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and other recommendations on authorship.Results654 questionnaires were returned (response rate 24%); 25% of the respondents had published less than five scientific articles, 43% five to 49, and 32% more than 50 articles. 97% reported knowledge of defined authorship criteria, and 68% regarded breaches of these as scientific misconduct. 36% had experienced pressure to include undeserved authors in their papers, more in basic science (46%) than in community medicine (25%). 29% reported that they had been denied authorship they believed they deserved. Researchers with less than six years of research experience found authorship decisions more difficult than more experienced researchers (48% vs 30%).The respondents’ agreement with the statements on authorship was higher than their self-reported ability to follow them for all statements. Average scores for agreement and practice for all statements combined were 1.4 vs 2.3. The discrepancy between attitude and practice declined with publishing experience. For the core ICMJE authorship requirements the average difference between attitude and practice was 1.2 among those who had published less than 5 articles and 0.7 among those who had published 50 articles or more (p < 0.05).ConclusionsAlmost all the responding researchers had knowledge of formal authorship requirements. Most of them agreed with the criteria, but found it harder to put them into practice. More experienced researchers found decisions on authorship and about the order of authors easier than less experienced researchers.

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Authorship: attitudes and practice among Norwegian researchers

2014

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“…While journals and professional societies have developed a number of approaches to contributorship issues (Rennie et al 2000;Gasparyan et al 2013;Baskin 2014), little research exists about the mechanisms that authors themselves use to address these problems.…”

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Dueling Co-Authors: How Collaborators Create and Sometimes Solve Contributorship Conflicts

Youtie

Bozeman

2016

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Publishing is central to the academic reward system. Contributorship issues loom large in this context. The need for fairness in authorship decisions is upheld in most collaborations, yet some collaborations are plagued by ''nightmare'' issues ranging from inappropriate authorship credit to author order issues to exploitation of students and postdocs. This present work analyzes the mechanisms that researchers use for addressing problems in research collaboration and authorship. The data are derived from face-to-face, phone or Skype interviews with 60 university researchers. The extent to which author crediting decisions are explicitly or implicitly communicated and communicated in advance versus in the aftermath of the completion of research are central features in conflict resolution. Explicit approaches are associated with fields characterized by large or infrastructure-intensive projects, whereas implicit approaches often represent unspoken disciplinebased norms. Efforts to educate students in how to manage authoring decisions tend to use advance methods. Problems stemming from a difficult researcher's actions cross these categories. Early communication would seem to be useful for issue resolution, but it is not widely used in part because it can lock-in to an author crediting plan too tightly and reduce flexibility as research directions change.

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“…In respected medical journals it is estimated at 21%, and that number may be much higher in less prominent journals and in certain countries [5] . In a self-reported study 33% of corresponding authors admitted to having honorary authors, and that the practice was found to be more common in Europe and Asia [6] .…”

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The Problem of Gift and Honorary Authorship - Who is an Author?

Gadre

2017

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Authorship problems in scholarly journals: considerations for authors, peer reviewers and editors

Cited by 76 publications

References 35 publications

Authorship: attitudes and practice among Norwegian researchers

Authorship: attitudes and practice among Norwegian researchers

Dueling Co-Authors: How Collaborators Create and Sometimes Solve Contributorship Conflicts

The Problem of Gift and Honorary Authorship - Who is an Author?

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