Is a gift authorship really a grift authorship?

Authorship Authorship

Authorship is broken.

Authorship inflation is unethical.

I thank Dr. Kakuk for his response to my article. Unfortunately, he seems to have misunderstood my arguments. He claims that I “fail to differentiate the problem of authorship from the problem of IFs usage”. In fact, I never actually directly linked these two problems, except to say that both trap researchers in a prisoner’s dilemma. Kakuk also claims that “The inappropriate usage of IF is not ...

Authorship

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...

“Editorial Letter” Managing Authorship Conflicts: A Guide for Researchers

Nowadays, the issue of Authorship has increasingly expanded in the academic world and has resulted in a lot of problems for scholars and the editorial board of scientific Journals. Given the increasing number of postgraduate students and subsequent research activities, every day we witness the formal and informal arguments on the ambiguity and unfairness of decisions regarding authors' names an...