Appraisal of the scientific impact of researchers, teams and institutions with productivity and citation metrics has major repercussions. Funding and promotion of individuals and survival of teams and institutions depend on publications and citations. In this competitive environment, the number of authors per paper is increasing and apparently some co-authors don't satisfy authorship criteria. ...

up by biomedical journals to include in a cross-sectional study is a testament to the widespread adoption of these policies and their importance to publishers of medical and scientific research. At JAMA Internal Medicine, our Instructions for Authors (www.jamainternalmed.com/public/forauthors .aspx) include a detailed outline of our stated editorial policies on authorship and the roles of spons...

Kovacs argues that honorary authorship and regarding each co-author of multi-authored papers as if they were sole authors when the performance of researchers is being evaluated by their publications mean that we should require authors to identify what proportion of each publication should be attributed to each co-author. Even if such attributions could be made reliably, such a change should not...

As an interdisciplinary team that creates interactive art installations, we discuss the concepts of authorship in context of the creation of two interactive art installations. In our experience, the continually evolving question of authorship raises questions about joint authorship, or how the people who have created the piece declare authorship; as well as shared authorship, or how the viewers...

Authorship is very important because academic achievement often assessed in terms of published articles, and the authors of each article are considered to have played a principal role in clinical or experimental studies. It is reasonable that readers of a journal think that authors are experts in their field of study. However, the editorial office of Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS) sometimes ...

This paper describes the use of Ant Colony Optimisation for the classification of works of disputed authorship, in this case the Federalist Papers.Classification accuracy was 79.1%, which compares reasonably well with previous work on the same data set using neural networks and genetic algorithms. Although statistical approaches have performed much better than this, the advantage of a rule-base...

At its annual meeting in October 2010, the editorial board of Pediatrics discussed a number of substantive issues related to the integrity of the scientific content of the journal. Topics included better identification of potential conflicts of interest, criteria for authorship, clinical trials registration, and clarifying our policies regarding industry-sponsored studies. As readers might imag...

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 ...