background: authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. objective: to document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. methods: an anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a new zealand university. results: 43 academics responded, a respo...

the objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and views of faculty members on criteria for authorship by international committee of medical journal editors (icmje), their current practice of choosing the authors, views on gift authorship and problems they had faced concerning authorship.it was a cross sectional survey from january 2011 to july 2011 among faculty members of various pri...

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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...

BACKGROUND Authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. OBJECTIVE To document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. METHODS An anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a New Zealand university. RESULTS 43 academics responded, a res...

On the authorship criteria Editor, The endless efforts of researchers finally pay off at the joyful moment of receiving the acceptance letter. The published article is valued by the authors, as it can advance science and help humanity. But is that all? Of course there remains another major source of encouragement to authors, which may be the most important part of a research. Paper publishing r...

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...