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Equal contributions and credit: an emerging trend in the characterization of authorship in major anaesthesia journals during a 10-yr period.
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- Equal Co-authorship Practices: Review and Recommendations.Science and engineering ethics · 2020Review
- Survey of equal contributions in biomedical research publications.Accountability in research · 2020Article
- Opinion: Authors overestimate their contribution to scientific work, demonstrating a strong bias.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Authorship: from credit to accountability. Reflections from the Editors' Network.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2019Review
- Authorship: from credit to accountability : Reflections from the Editors' Network.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2019Article
- Authorship: From Credit to Accountability Reflections From the Editors´ Network.Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2019Article
- Authorship policies of scientific journals.Journal of medical ethics · 2016Article
- Equal contributions and credit: an emerging trend in the characterization of authorship in major spine journals during a 10-year period.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2016Article
- Ongoing ethical issues concerning authorship in biomedical journals: an integrative review.International journal of nanomedicine · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe practice of giving certain authors equal credit in original research publications was increasingly common in some specialty. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of designating some authors with equally credited authors (ECAs) in major anaesthesia journals. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL
findingsThe practice of giving authors equal credit was searched and identified in the three major anaesthesia journals between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2011. Papers with ECAs had a higher proportion of the total number of articles in 2011 versus published in 2002 (Anesthesiology, 8.8% vs. 0.9%; British Journal of Anaesthesia, 8.8% vs. 0%; Anesthesia & Analgesia, 3.4% vs. 0.3%; totally, 6.4% vs. 0.4%). A significant increasing trend in annual proportion of articles with ECA was found in the three journals. The first two authors listed in the byline had equal credit in most cases. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The practice of giving authors equal credit in original research papers is increasingly common in major anaesthesia journals. It may be warranted for the journals to guide the authors how to regard this practice.
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