Right of authorship, and responsibility of authorship

Authorship in ecology: attribution, accountability, and responsibility

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org A published in peer-reviewed journals are the medium by which scientists present their findings to the scholarly community. The quality and quantity of publications are essential components for building careers, funding projects, and generating a sense of accomplishment and self-worth (Lindsey 1980). The past five decades have seen ...

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The instability of authorship: credit and responsibility in contemporary biomedicine.

In the past decade, the definition of authorship has been the topic of many articles and letters to the editor in scientific and especially biomedical journals. The official position of the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) has been, and continues to be, that authorship must be strictly individual and coupled with full responsibility for the claims published. But the ap...

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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...

On authorship, mentorship and responsibility for data accuracy.

In an editorial in the first issue of Science in 2010, Editorin-Chief, Bruce Alberts, writes: ‘The scientific enterprise is built on a foundation of trust’. The author emphasizes the importance of maintaining high ethical standards in any scientific publishing. He points to a previous publication in Science, where he and colleague Kenneth Shine pushed for a ‘research environment that, through i...