ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2020
Perish or Publish Dilemma: Challenges to Responsible Authorship.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.
- Automatically listing senior members of departments as co-authors is highly prevalent in health sciences: meta-analysis of survey research.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Honorary authorship is highly prevalent in health sciences: systematic review and meta-analysis of surveys.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Who deserves credit, who receives credit? A cross-sectional survey on the handling of co-authorship in medical dissertations in Germany.Research integrity and peer review · 2026Article
- Understanding of Authorship Guidelines and the Frequency of Authorship Misuse: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study in the State of Qatar.Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE · 2026Article
- Navigating the ethical landscape of scholarly publishing: a comparative evaluation of Gemini and DeepSeek LLMs in addressing authorship and contributorship disputes.Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2026Article
- From Guidance to Grievance: Postgraduates, Mentors, and the Authorship Dispute.Journal of orthopaedic case reports · 2025Article
- Six Decades of Scientific Output: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Contributions from the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery "Manuel Velasco Suárez".Current medicinal chemistry · 2025Article
- Special Issues: The roles of special issues in scholarly communication in a changing publishing landscape.Learned publishing : journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers · 2025Article
- The increasing authorship trend in neuroscience: A scientometric analysis across 11 countries.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2024Article
- Coercion Authorship: Ubiquitous and Preventable.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
- A Decade of Global Skull Base Researchers: Authorship Trends from 3,295 Abstracts in theJournal of neurological surgery. Part B, Skull base · 2024Article
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- Research Integrity: Where We Are and Where We Are Heading.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Review
- Off-Label Use vs Off-Label Marketing: Part 2: Off-Label Marketing-Consequences for Patients, Clinicians, and Researchers.JACC. Basic to translational science · 2023Article
- "The person in power told me to"-European PhD students' perspectives on guest authorship and good authorship practice.PloS one · 2023Article
- [Authorship and Inappropriate Authorship from an Ethical Publication Perspective].Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology · 2022Review
- Justifying the unethical: Are we following the wrong trend regarding authorship? Perspective from Pakistan.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Honorary authorship in health sciences: a protocol for a systematic review of survey research.Systematic reviews · 2022Article
- Perception of health care students towards lectures as a teaching and learning method in the COVID era - A multicentric cross-sectional study from India.F1000Research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Controversies related to the concept and practice of responsible authorship and its misuse have been among the most prominent issues discussed in the recent literature on research integrity. Therefore, this paper aims to address the factors that lead to two major types of unethical authorship, namely, honorary and ghost authorship. It also highlights negative consequences of authorship misuse and provides a critical analysis of different authorship guidelines, including a recent debate on the amendments of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship definition. Empirical studies revealed that honorary authorship was the most prevalent deviation from the responsible authorship standards. Three different modalities of honorary authorship were distinguished:
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