Authorship! Authorship! Guests, ghosts, grafters, and the two-sided coin.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Authorship Policies at U.S. Doctoral Universities: A Review and Recommendations for Future Policies.Science and engineering ethics · 2020
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2. Creating a responsible authorship culture in science: Anchoring authorship practices in principles of transparency, credit, and accountability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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3. Artificial Intelligence Assistance in the Peer Review Analysis of Medical Articles: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Ethical Considerations.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2025
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4. Call for a fairer approach to authorship in publishing biomedical research.Communications medicine · 2025
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5. The increasing authorship trend in neuroscience: A scientometric analysis across 11 countries.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2024
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6. Coercion Authorship: Ubiquitous and Preventable.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024
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7. An Ethical Exploration of Increased Average Number of Authors Per Publication.Science and engineering ethics · 2022
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8. Awareness, usage and perceptions of authorship guidelines: an international survey of biomedical authors.BMJ open · 2020
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9. Authorship: from credit to accountability. Reflections from the Editors' Network.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2019
   Review
10. 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 · 2019
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11. Authorship: From Credit to Accountability Reflections From the Editors´ Network.Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2019
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12. The Second Mediterranean Seminar on Science Writing, Editing and Publishing (SWEP - 2018), Sarajevo, December 8th, 2018.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2018
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13. Transparency in authors' contributions and responsibilities to promote integrity in scientific publication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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14. Bibliometric Analysis of Female Authorship Trends and Collaboration Dynamics Over JBMR's 30-Year History.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2017
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15. Trouble in Paradise: Problems in Academic Research Co-authoring.Science and engineering ethics · 2016
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16. The ICMJE Recommendations and pharmaceutical marketing--strengths, weaknesses and the unsolved problem of attribution in publication ethics.BMC medical ethics · 2016
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17. On Ghosts and Other Unwelcome Guests.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015
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18. Scientific misconducts and authorship conflicts: Indian perspective.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2015
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19. Authorship Inflation in Medical Publications.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing · 2015
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20. Ethics of using language editing services in an era of digital communication and heavily multi-authored papers.Science and engineering ethics · 2014
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Corrections and comments

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  The contributions of authors to multiauthored biomedical research papers.1994

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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