Authorship problems are deep-rooted in the field of science communication. Some of these relate to lack of specific journal instructions. For decades, experts in journal editing and publishing have been exploring the authorship criteria and contributions deserving either co-authorship or acknowledgment. The issue of inconsistencies of listing and abbreviating author names has come to the fore l...

The authorship of this paper (BMJ 2017;356;j100, doi:10.1136/ bmj.j1000, published 16 March 2017) has been amended to group authorship. All members of the group listed at the end of the article were full authors and fulfilled ICMJE criteria for authorship. In addition, the paper incorrectly stated that the CGPS, GESUS, DESIR, DCH Study, DIOGENES, PREDIMED-VALENCIA, and BPRHS cohorts were part o...

This study analyzes collaborative and networked academic authorship in higher education. The literature review shows evidence that single authorship has made a gradual paradigm shift to joint authorship. The empirical evidence from the Turku University of Applied Sciences indicates that collaborative authorship has notably increased in the last few years. Co-authorship has extended outside the ...

Authorship Analysis aims to extract information about the authorship of documents from features within those documents. Typically, this is performed as a classification task with the aim of identifying the author of a document, given a set of documents of known authorship. Alternatively, unsupervised methods have been developed primarily as visualisation tools to assist the manual discovery of ...

The aim of this paper is to explore the usefulness of using features from different linguistic levels to email authorship identification. Using various email datasets provided by PAN’11 lab we tested several feature groups in both authorship attribution and authorship verification subtasks. The selected feature groups combined with Regularized Logistic Regression and One-Class SVMmachine learni...

Collaborative writing in academic medicine gives rise to more richly informed scholarship, and yet challenging ethical issues surrounding authorship are commonly encountered. International guidelines on authorship help clarify whether individuals who have contributed to a completed scholarly work have been correctly included as authors, but these guidelines do not facilitate intentional and pro...

Public participation and survivor research in mental health are widely recognized as vital to the field. At same time, contributions of patient collaborators can present unique challenges determining authorship. Using an unresolved dispute around American Psychiatric Association’s Services journal, authorship contribution addressed. Recommendations suggested prevent dilemmas achieve responsible...

BACKGROUND In the past 50 years there has been a substantial increase in the volume of published research and in the number of authors per scientific publication. There is also significant pressure exerted on researchers to produce publications. Thus, the purpose of this study was to survey corresponding authors in published medical journals to determine their opinion on publication impact in r...