Authorship: time for a paradigm shift?

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

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

1. The ADNI Publication Policy: commensurate recognition of critical contributors who are not authors.NeuroImage · 2012
   Guideline
2. Beyond genuine collaboration: the rise of strategic co-authorship in contemporary academic publishing.Research integrity and peer review · 2026
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3. Qualitative research in cardiac arrest research: A narrative review.Resuscitation plus · 2024
   Review
4. What Constitutes Authorship in the Social Sciences?Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2021
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5. Multiple First Authors as Equal Contributors: Is It Ethical?Science and engineering ethics · 2017
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6. Author contributions to ecological publications: What does it mean to be an author in modern ecological research?PloS one · 2017
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7. A Simple Framework for Evaluating Authorial Contributions for Scientific Publications.Science and engineering ethics · 2016
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8. 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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9. An emerging trend of equal authorship credit in major public health journals.SpringerPlus · 2016
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10. 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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11. Whose manuscript is it anyway? The 'Write' position and number of authors….Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology · 2013
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12. "Conferring authorship": biobank stakeholders' experiences with publication credit in collaborative research.PloS one · 2013
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13. Equal contributions and credit: an emerging trend in the characterization of authorship in major anaesthesia journals during a 10-yr period.PloS one · 2013
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14. Less work, less respect: authors' perceived importance of research contributions and their declared contributions to research articles.PloS one · 2011
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15. "Equal" contributions and credit: an emerging trend in the characterization of authorship.Annals of epidemiology · 2010
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16. Perceptions of authorship criteria: effects of student instruction and scientific experience.Journal of medical ethics · 2007
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17. Authors and publication practices.Science and engineering ethics · 2006
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18. Authorship in a small medical journal: a study of contributorship statements by corresponding authors.Science and engineering ethics · 2004
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19. How the tobacco industry responded to an influential study of the health effects of secondhand smoke.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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20. Publication ethics and the research assessment exercise: reflections on the troubled question of authorship.Journal of medical ethics · 2000
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Authorship. Number of publications given on curricula vitae should be limited.1997
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  Authorship. Author saw fraud, misconduct, and unfairness to more junior staff.1997
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  Authorship. Excluding authors may be impossible.1997
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  Authorship. Changing authorship system might be counterproductive.1997
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  Authorship. System acknowledging roles of contributors is best.1997
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  Authorship. Question of authorship concerns everyone in training grades.1997
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  Authorship. Coworkers should be named.1997
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  Authorship. Work done by junior researchers gives rise to problems.1997
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  Authorship. New authorship practices are needed in developing countries.1997
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  Authorship. Authorship is influenced by power and departmental politics.1997
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  Authorship. Fierce disputes about order of authors sometimes occur in China.1997
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  Authorship. Knowing who did what in studies is important.1997
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  Authorship. Without a putative contributor, would the integrity of the work change?1997
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  Authorship. Researchers' objective is to get the job done.1997
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  Authorship. Guidelines exist on ownership of data and authorship in multicentre collaborations.1997
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  The vexed question of authorship: views of researchers in a British medical faculty.1997

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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