Criteria for authorship in bioethics.

Bioethics authorship in context: how trends in biomedicine challenge bioethics.

Authorship ethics in global health research partnerships between researchers from low or middle income countries and high income countries

BACKGROUND Over the past two decades, the promotion of collaborative partnerships involving researchers from low and middle income countries with those from high income countries has been a major development in global health research. Ideally, these partnerships would lead to more equitable collaboration including the sharing of research responsibilities and rewards. While collaborative partner...

“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...

Biochemia Medica’s editorial policy on authorship

Recent findings of authorship criteria violations in the manuscripts submitted to Biochemia Medica show that almost 40% of authors do not meet necessary criteria for authorship and thus indicate the need for better dissemination of editorial policy on authorship in our journal. We believe that such cases are mostly due to the authors’ unawareness or the lack of understanding of the authorship c...

Appearance of ghost and gift authors in Ugeskrift for Læger and Danish Medical Journal.

INTRODUCTION Authorship should establish accountability and transparency, but previous research into authorship has demonstrated that authors do not always meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' (ICMJE) authorship criteria. Yet, these studies have mainly focused on international, high-impact journals. The aim of the present study was to assess Danish authors' general autho...