gift authorship
When somebody who has made little or no contribution to a research project or publication is included as an author
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Inappropriate authorship on students paper
11-24 A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study which was a final year student's project was submitted as an original article to our journal on 30 April 2011. On initial review it was obvious that it was conducted by students ...
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A member of an author group listed on a paper denies authorship
08-08 We publish “mini-reviews” of published articles. Our faculty of eminent researchers and clinicians write these evaluations. One of the conditions we insist on from our faculty is that they may not evaluate work on which they are an ...
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Prolific authors
07-04 We have noticed some authors who are publishing at a rate that is exceptionally high. ...
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Institutionalised policy of gift authorship?
06-13 A manuscript was submitted to our journal. After review we asked for revision. At this time we sent a formatting checklist which includes criteria for authorship. Two authors were removed in the resubmission. Eventually the ...
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Plagiarism
05-08 A review article by an expert group plagiarised an article from another journal. It was largely a direct translation, involving large slabs of the text. Some of the authors are on the editorial board of the journal where the paper ...
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Misunderstood requirements for authorship
04-39 Dr X submitted a paper to a journal that was assigned by a rather hung-over editorial assistant to an associate editor who was a co-author on the paper. Realising the mistake, she emailed the associate editor to reassign the paper. ...