Avoiding Inappropriate Authorship

Avoiding Inappropriate Authorship

Appropriate authorship is one of the pillars of publication ethics. Substantive contributors listed as authors should be distinguished from those deserving acknowledgments. The updated recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) clearly define authorship and contributorship (1). The ICMJE document reflects on implications of the ethical assignment of author...

Meiosis: Avoiding inappropriate relationships

Meiosis is distinguished from mitosis by the way double-strand breaks are made and by the synapsis and segregation of homologous chromosomes. Recent studies with the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have identified some of the key players that link homologous recombination to synaptonemal complex formation.

Inappropriate Authorship and Kinship in Research Evaluation

To curb the issue of allocating the same credit to all co-authors of any multi-author paper, it has been proposed to give the greater credit share to the first author and lesser shares to the co-authors, depending on their contribution and position in the byline.5 Moreover, Shen and Barabási6 developed an algorithm that attempts to quantify the credit share of co-authors. Consistent with this i...

Residents and authorship: rights, obligations, and avoiding the pitfalls.

The ICMJE also stresses that most journals now request and publish information about the contributions of each individual that had a role in the work being submitted. Finally, ICMJE encourages journals and their editorial boards to develop and implement a contributorship policy. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements specify that faculty should enco...

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