changes in authorship

When changes to the author list are requested at a late stage in the publication process (i.e. after submission to a journal or after publication)

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  1. Request to withdraw as an author of an accepted but unpublished paper

    11-28 Last March we accepted a paper written by a post-doctoral fellow (PD) and an assistant professor (AP). The work was done by PD in AP's laboratory; PD has now moved on (to another country, in fact). Soon after the manuscript ...

  2. Late introduction of an omitted author after online publishing

    11-08 The corresponding author as well as the co-authors admit that they have omitted one author (author X) who was responsible for a major part of the work in their study. ...

  3. Claim from an author that his name should not have been included as author on a paper

    10-30 Dr R submitted a paper to our journal and has since expressed unhappiness about the way in which our journal has dealt with the issue. ...

  4. Suspected contact between reviewer and an author led to coauthorship of the reviewer

    09-05 A manuscript was submitted via our electronic submission system and processed in accordance with the standard procedures of the journal. This was originally a single author submission, and in the covering letter the author ...

  5. Author dispute over need for retraction

    06-04 The authors of a paper are in disagreement over whether the paper should be retracted.  One group of authors (group 1) wishes to publish a correction, and another group (group 2) feel that is inadequate, and the paper should be ...

  6. The disappearing authors

    04-03 Some time after a single authored research article was published a journal received a letter pointing out that the same article had been rejected by another journal because of unresolved authorship and acknowledgement issues. At ...

  7. Authorship dispute

    03-23 A paper submitted to an international medical journal was reviewed externally and the authors were subsequently invited to submit a revised version. The initial submission included authors from two different research institutions ...

  8. An accusation of fraud in a rejected paper

    04-02 A paper was reviewed by two referees. The associate editor dealing with it recommended rejection as both reviews were critical of the methods, results, and reproducibility of the experiment. After the authors were informed, the ...