Health and Human Services, and distributed to applicant or awardee institutions and PHS agencies to facilitate pursuit of a common interest in handling allegations of misconduct and promoting integrity in PHS-supported research. Misuse of authorship on scientific papers is not considered misconduct, although most of the reported cases of authorship disputes involve falsi-fication and/or fabrica...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to (a) assess the prevalence of articles with honorary authors and ghost authors in 10 leading peer-reviewed nursing journals between 2010 to 2012; (b) compare the results to prevalence reported by authors of articles published in high-impact medical journals; and (c) assess the experiences of editors in the International Academy of Nursing Editors with h...

The first editorial request was to include an acknowledgements section. In our previous manuscript version we had neglected to include an acknowledgements section to acknowledge any additional contributors who did not meet the authorship criteria, and to share our funding source and their role. I have added this section, as follows:

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The scientific and technological progress that has taken place since the 1960s has brought an ever-growing volume of scientific research, and inflation in co-authorship. Over this period, it has been observed that an increasing number of publications have listed authors or co-authors whose participation in the published research was minimal or even nonexistent. The objecti...

The data are in and the primary analysis is done. It has been 5 years since the principal investigator had the initial idea for the project, and since then many people have joined and left the funded research team. The study team consists of three coinvestigators; one of whom left the university partway through to pursue interests elsewhere. Other members of the team include a project coordinat...

Authorship attribution supported by statistical or computational methods has a long history starting from 19th century and marked by the seminal study of Mosteller and Wallace (1964) on the authorship of the disputed Federalist Papers. During the last decade, this scientific field has been developed substantially taking advantage of research advances in areas such as machine learning, informati...

S ince the earliest peer-reviewed publications of the late 17th century, conventions about the authorship of scientifi c papers—which were generally anonymous and attributed to the sponsor (in those days, usually the church or the king)—have evolved considerably [1]. Readers now want to know not only who paid for the research but also who did the work. Transparency (i.e., full disclosure) is no...