Gift and Ghost Authorship and the Use of Authorship Guidelines in Psychology Journals
Steven De Peuter,
Jana Reck,
Steffi Bellekens
et al.
Abstract:More than 800 (co-)authors participated in a large-scale survey on gift and ghost authorship and the use of explicit authorship guidelines in psychological science (response rate 29.6%, predominantly from Europe and North America). Almost half of the respondents had experienced gift authorship at least a few times, ghost authorship was considerably less prevalent. In approximately half of the respondents’ research settings, the use of explicit authorship guidelines is actively encouraged, leading to more frequ… Show more
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