Culture and Unmerited Authorship Credit: Who Wants It and Why?

Ren, Xiaopeng; Su, Hong; Lu, Kewen; Dong, Xiawei; Ouyang, Zhengzheng; Talhelm, Thomas

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02017

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“…Besides damaging trust between the society and the scientific community, honorary authorship also harms the true authors by diluting their contribution and giving undeserved competitive advantage to unethical researchers by facilitating their promotion and access to research grants [28,29]. Authorship is not a sole inscription of one's surname on the author line.…”

Section: Negative Consequences Of Authorship Misusementioning

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Perish or Publish Dilemma: Challenges to Responsible Authorship

2020

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Controversies related to the concept and practice of responsible authorship and its misuse have been among the most prominent issues discussed in the recent literature on research integrity. Therefore, this paper aims to address the factors that lead to two major types of unethical authorship, namely, honorary and ghost authorship. It also highlights negative consequences of authorship misuse and provides a critical analysis of different authorship guidelines, including a recent debate on the amendments of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship definition. Empirical studies revealed that honorary authorship was the most prevalent deviation from the responsible authorship standards. Three different modalities of honorary authorship were distinguished: gift authorship, guest authorship, and coercive authorship. Prevalence of authorship misuse worldwide and in Europe was alarmingly high, covering approximately one third of all scientific publications. No significant differences were reported in authorship misuse between different health research disciplines. The studies conducted in North America highlighted the most effective means to cope with unethical authorship. These were training in publishing ethics, clear authorship policies developed by medical schools, and explicit compliance with the authorship criteria required by the medical journals. In conclusion, more empirical research is needed to raise awareness of the high prevalence of authorship misuse among scientists. Research integrity training courses, including publication ethics and authorship issues should be integrated into the curricula for students and young researchers in medical schools. Last but not least, further discussion on responsible authorship criteria and practice should be initiated.

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Section: Negative Consequences Of Authorship Misusementioning

confidence: 99%

Perish or Publish Dilemma: Challenges to Responsible Authorship

2020

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“…The higher this score, the greater the preference for a loosely knit social framework in which individuals are expected to take care of only themselves and their immediate families; the lower the score, the greater the preference for a tightly knit framework in a society where people expect their relatives or members of a particular group to look after them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. Countries with a lower score are thought to be more likely to include unmerited authors on publications [26]. Countries in grey do not have available data.…”

Section: How Authorship and Indices Are Being Used And Abusedmentioning

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“…For example, in the medical field, papers with at least one author from a basic science department are more likely to be published in a high-impact journal than papers from only clinicians [25]. There is also a cultural basis to unmerited authorship which appears to be influenced by how individualistic or collectivistic a society is [26]. Researchers from countries that have a more collectivistic perspective (the practice of giving a group priority over each individual) are more likely to add unmerited co-authors than scientists from individualistic countries [26].…”

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Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship,h-index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia

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Research is a highly competitive profession where evaluation plays a central role; journals are ranked and individuals are evaluated based on their publication number, the number of times they are cited and their h -index. Yet such evaluations are often done in inappropriate ways that are damaging to individual careers, particularly for young scholars, and to the profession. Furthermore, as with all indices, people can play games to better their scores. This has resulted in the incentive structure of science increasingly mimicking economic principles, but rather than a monetary gain, the incentive is a higher score. To ensure a diversity of cultural perspectives and individual experiences, we gathered a team of academics in the fields of ecology and evolution from around the world and at different career stages. We first examine how authorship, h -index of individuals and journal impact factors are being used and abused. Second, we speculate on the consequences of the continued use of these metrics with the hope of sparking discussions that will help our fields move in a positive direction. We would like to see changes in the incentive systems, rewarding quality research and guaranteeing transparency. Senior faculty should establish the ethical standards, mentoring practices and institutional evaluation criteria to create the needed changes.

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“…The inconsistency between them may be partly driven by different measurement techniques or attention to different facets of collectivism. Broadening the tools used to assess collectivism should be encouraged in studies of the different regions (Ren et al, 2016). Doing so would help determine whether particular facets of collectivism differ in terms of how well they are explained by the triple-line framework.…”

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An Integrated Ecological Approach to Mapping Variations in Collectivism Within China: Introducing the Triple-Line Framework

Ren

Cang

Ryder

2021

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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Measurable regional variations in collectivism have been found across the Chinese mainland, challenging the simple classification of China as a “collectivistic society” in cross-national studies. In previous studies, a small number of distal or proximal ecological factors have been used to explain these regional variations of collectivism. However, there has been little consensus on which ecological factors best predict regional collectivism. In this article, the authors propose the “triple-line framework,” an integrated perspective on regional variations in collectivism. This framework divides China into four regions using three lines—the Hu Huanyong Line, the Great Wall Line, and the Qinling–Huaihe Line—according to their ecological, historical, and social characteristics. A growing body of empirical research is largely consistent with this framework. The authors conclude by discussing the potential for this framework to generate new, testable hypotheses and consider some ways in which this approach to intranational variation could be used by cultural psychologists working in other parts of the world.

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Culture and Unmerited Authorship Credit: Who Wants It and Why?

Cited by 12 publications

References 48 publications

Perish or Publish Dilemma: Challenges to Responsible Authorship

Perish or Publish Dilemma: Challenges to Responsible Authorship

Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship,h-index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia

An Integrated Ecological Approach to Mapping Variations in Collectivism Within China: Introducing the Triple-Line Framework

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