disputed authorship

When those involved with a research project or publication cannot agree on how the authorship should be represented (e.g. who should be listed and the order of listing)

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  1. 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. ...

  2. Authorship dispute

    10-27 Professor X claims that he should have been a coauthor on one of two peer reviewed publications and the senior author on the other. The situation is unusual in that Professor X is now retired and his name was omitted from ...

  3. A claim of stolen data and a demand for retractions

    10-22 The publishers received an email from author B about a recently published paper, which passed peer review and had been available online for about a month. In this email, author B claimed that he and another colleague C had ...

  4. What constitutes authorship?

    10-19 Author X submitted a paper to another journal, and included author Y, a student in the same institute, as a courtesy. Author Y had drawn two figures for the paper and discussed some of the observations (all made by author X) with ...

  5. Scientist reads published paper by former collaborators and claims co-authorship

    09-23 The case concerns a paper we published, ahead of print, on the journal’s website on 5 October 2009. A week later we received a letter from Dr A who claimed that the authors had a major conflict of interest and implied that she ...

  6. Alleged unauthorized use of data and possible dual publication

    09-20 During review of a manuscript submitted to our journal, a dispute arose over some of the data used in the database that was described in the submitted paper. ...

  7. Possible serial misconduct in relation to coauthors and other activities

    09-04 I am the editor of an international clinical journal and am facing a very unusual problem that does not fit readily into COPE flowcharts. ...

  8. An authorship dispute and a question about when a paper is considered published

    09-02  Authors A and B submitted a paper PV1 to an international conference which was accepted by the editor E of the conference proceedings. The copyright of the paper was assigned to the publishers PC of the conference proceedings. The ...

  9. A(uthor) vs C(omplainant) authorship dispute

    08-23 A was a researcher in C’s lab for 1 year, during which time they published a joint research paper in a third party journal (journal S). After leaving C’s institute (henceforth called institute X), A published in the journal ...

  10. “I was acknowledged but I should be an author”

    08-07 A person named in the acknowledgements of a paper wrote to the editor indicating that they had been in part responsible for the analysis and interpretation of the data and should therefore be named as an author. ...

  11. Author dispute over internal report

    07-27 Author A was paid to facilitate a meeting and write a meeting report for internal purposes.  He was paid to do this by author C’s company. The report was posted as a PDF on author C’s company website. No authors were listed on the ...

  12. Authorship issue

    07-12 The editors of a scientific journal were sent a letter of complaint from Drs A and B who noticed that a paper had been published online ahead of the print edition authored by Dr C. ...

  13. Authorship dispute

    06-12 The paper in question describes a collaborative study of several datasets (not all previously published). A putative referee was asked to review the paper and declined. However, this led to a written complaint asserting that (s)he ...

  14. Author’s name removed from submitted article

    06-07 A week after receiving a paper on a study for consideration for publication, the Editor received an email from person X claiming to have been the principal investigator of the study for the previous five years, up until he recently ...

  15. Anonymous information

    04-20 We have received an allegation from an anonymous phone caller that an author has been wrongly omitted from a Viewpoint published 2 years ago. The claim was made that the author's contribution was suppressed by the institution. ...

  16. Retraction of false authorship

    04-11 Dr X asked for a statement to be published to the effect that the letter he had published in the journal with two co-authors was not based on any work that he had done, but on that of his colleagues. The editor asked the other two ...

  17. Dispute between authors and a reviewer

    04-10 A concise report on a rare disease was submitted and sent out to an internationally renowned reviewer in the field. He felt that some of the data had been obtained in his unit, and this had not been acknowledged by the authors. The ...

  18. 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 ...