Authorship Controversies: Gift, Guest and Ghost Authorship

Open Medicine’s ghost and guest authorship policy

The authors are on the editorial team of Open Medicine. G host authorship occurs when someone makes a significant contribution to a manuscript without due acknowledgement of their role. Guest authorship , in contrast, occurs when an individual is named as an author of a manuscript when they do not meet authorship criteria. Both are disturbingly common. 1 The preliminary results of a recent surv...

Honorary and ghost authorship in nursing publications.

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to (a) assess the prevalence of articles with honorary authors and ghost authors in 10 leading peer-reviewed nursing journals between 2010 to 2012; (b) compare the results to prevalence reported by authors of articles published in high-impact medical journals; and (c) assess the experiences of editors in the International Academy of Nursing Editors with h...

Ghost Authorship in Industry-Initiated Randomised Trials

BACKGROUND Ghost authorship, the failure to name, as an author, an individual who has made substantial contributions to an article, may result in lack of accountability. The prevalence and nature of ghost authorship in industry-initiated randomised trials is not known. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a cohort study comparing protocols and corresponding publications for industry-initiated tr...

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The editorial board of the Korean Journal of Family Medicine has received several queries, especially regarding publication ethics. Among the many areas of research publication ethics, the authorship dispute has been one of the most popular issues. Some authors may request the addition of an extra author or removal of others. Sometimes, they want co-authorship (co-first authorship or co-corresp...