Researcher Contributions and Fulfillment of ICMJE Authorship Criteria: Analysis of Author Contribution Lists in Research Articles with Multiple Authors Published inRadiology

Abstract

The 68% fulfillment of criteria for authorship was closely related to the large number of researchers contributing to one category or to categories belonging to the same ICMJE criterion.

Inventorship and authorship as attribution rights: An enquiry into the economics of scientific credit

“…Bates et al (2004) find that 60% of 72 articles surveyed in 2002 in the Annals of Internal Medicine and 21% of 107 articles in the British Medical Journal have at least one author that does not meet the first ICJME criterion. Similar results are found by Hwang et al (2003) for the Journal of Radiology (see also references therein on Lancet and the Dutch Medical Journal). This suggests that authorship attribution remains a subjective decision, which is negotiated within research teams, according to customary rules that do not necessarily match editorial guidelines.…”

“…Some steps in the direction of abandoning authorship have been undertaken by several scientific journals, especially in the medical sciences, which now require authors not merely to identify themselves as such, but also to specify the exact contents of their contribution, according to pre-determined categories. "Contributorship" is suggested as an alternative to authorship (Rennie, 1998;Biagioli et al, 1999;Hwang et al, 2003).…”

“…The existence of cross-countries differences in authorship attribution is suggested by Hwang et al (2003), who find that US scientists are more likely to comply with the ICMJE authorship guidelines than non-US ones. Similar differences may be found for inventorship.…”

Neurointerventional Research between 2003 and 2012: Slow Growth, High Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and a Low Level of Funding

“…Many publications in our data are the product of a collaborative effort among different specialties or countries, so assigning articles to 1 specialty or country is inherently difficult. However, several studies 21,22 have determined that first authors make the greatest contributions to the research and are considered the best means of assigning credit.…”

Navigating interpersonal conflict and peer review

“…Although some journals have required each author to spell out in antagonizing detail their exact role in any publication who among us can and will say in the end that this was not an appropriate role meriting authorship if all the other authors agree that it does. [6][7][8] The literature itself is surprisingly silent on this world of interpersonal distress as influencing peer review. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has as recently as October of last year, updated their uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals.…”