Authorship controversies have received considerable attention in the medical literature. Although guidelines are available to help determine how attribution should be acknowledged, anecdotal experiences with disputes associated with authorship continue to exist. This paper addresses several key problems facing ...
Editorial. Focuses on the ethics of authorship of scientific papers submitted for publication in medical journals. Guidelines for formats of manuscripts; Need for authors and editors to adhere to strict ethical guidelines; Reliance on computerized searches of medical literature which generally exclude ...
Increasing number of authors has brought its own issues of author credits, disputes, rivalry, and a degree of unwelcome scramble for credit sharing. Many unresolved issues about authorship and various guidelines and admonitions are more often infringed than adhered to. The position of the first and...
ComprehensiveguidelinesonauthorshiparepublishedbytheInternationalCommitteeofMedical JournalEditors(.icmje).Thisorganizationstatesthat: “Eachauthorshouldhaveparticipatedsufficientlyintheworktotakepublicresponsibilityfor appropriateportionsofthecontent.” Failuretotakeresponsibilityforthecontentofapaperisimportantasthefollowinged...
After all the only people who never get upsetaboutauthorship are the people who do not publish papers! Comprehensive guidelines on authorship are published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (). This organization states that: “Each author should have participated sufficiently in...
It is recommended that authors adhere to the guidelines for authorship that are applicable in their specific research field. In absence of specific guidelines it is recommended to adhere to the following guidelines a,b: All authors whose names appear on the submission made substantial contributions ...
After all the only people who never get upset about authorship are the people who do not publish papers! Comprehensive guidelines on authorship are published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (). This organization states that: “Each author should have participated sufficiently...
10. National Institutes of Health. Guidelines for the Conduct of Research in the Intramural Research Program at NIH. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2007. 11. Shapiro D, Wenger NS, Shapiro MF. The Contributions of Authors to Multiauthored Biomedical Research Papers. JAMA. 1994; 27...
Despite these increases, there remains a shortage of useful and definitive guidelines to aid ecologists in addressing authorship issues, leading to a lack of consistency in what the term author really means. Deciding where to draw the line between those who have earned authorship and those who ...
aforementionedguidelinesastoorestrictive.Inparticularsomefeelthattheyundervaluethecontributionsofskilledtechnicians(seebelow).Furthermore,theguidelinesdonotspecifywhatshouldbeconsideredasasubstantialintellectualcontributiontotheresearch(criteria1).etoajudgmentaboutwhoshouldbeanauthoronapapersomeprofessorshavedevelopedcriteriafor...