A proposal for a new system of credit allocation in science

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 237-243

  Resnik, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Credit; Ethics; Policies; Publication; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 3643131707     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-997-0023-5     Document Type: Article

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2. I do not take credit for this idea, since it has been discussed in the literature for a number of years. See Macauley, D. (1992) Cite the workers. British Medical Journal 305:120; Fotion, N. & Conrad, C. (1984) Authorship and other credits. Annals of Internal Medicine 100: 592-594; White, B. & Knight, J. (1997) Multiple authorship. Science 275: 461, and Hopfield, J. (1997) Authorship: truth in labeling. Science 275: 1501.
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4. I do not take credit for this idea, since it has been discussed in the literature for a number of years. See Macauley, D. (1992) Cite the workers. British Medical Journal 305:120; Fotion, N. & Conrad, C. (1984) Authorship and other credits. Annals of Internal Medicine 100: 592-594; White, B. & Knight, J. (1997) Multiple authorship. Science 275: 461, and Hopfield, J. (1997) Authorship: truth in labeling. Science 275: 1501.
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