Authorship problems in scholarly journals: Considerations for authors, peer reviewers and editors

Rheumatology International

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 277-284

  Gasparyan, Armen Yuri ^a   Ayvazyan, Lilit ^b   Kitas, George D ^a,c  

^a RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b YEREVAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authorship; Editorial policies; Periodicals as topic; Research standards

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR; EDITOR; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL STATUS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84873986877     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-012-2582-2     Document Type: Review

References (53)

1. Scott JT (1993) Is it worth writing about? J R Soc Med 86(1):5-6
2. Greene M (2007) The demise of the lone author. Nature 450(7173):1165. doi: 10.1038/4501165a
3. Patel VM, Ashrafian H, Ahmed K, Arora S, Jiwan S, Nicholson JK, Darzi A, Athanasiou T (2011) How has healthcare research performance been assessed?: a systematic review. J R Soc Med 104(6):251-261. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110005
4. Osareh F, Chakoli NA, Keshvari M (2010) Co-authorship of Iranian researchers in science, social science, art and humanities citation indexes in the web of science between 2000 and 2006. Inform Sci Technol 25(4):573-595
5. Yousefi A, Hemmat M, Gilvari A, Shahmirzadi T (2012) Citation analysis and co-authorship of Iranian researchers in the field of immunology in ISI web of science: a brief report. Tehran Univ Med J 70(3):188-193
6. Vinther S, Rosenberg J (2012) Authorship trends over the past fifty years in the Journal of the Danish Medical Association (Danish: Ugeskrift for Læger). Dan Med J 59(3):A4390
7. Mirzazadeh A, Navadeh S, Rokni MB, Farhangniya M (2011) The prevalence of honorary and ghost authorships in Iranian bio-medical journals and its associated factors. Iran J Public Health 40(1):15-21
8. Figg WD, Dunn L, Liewehr DJ, Steinberg SM, Thurman PW, Barrett JC, Birkinshaw J (2006) Scientific collaboration results in higher citation rates of published articles. Pharmacotherapy 26(6):759-767. doi: 10.1592/phco.26.6.759
9. Bornmann L, Daniel HD (2009) The state of h index research. Is the h index the ideal way to measure research performance? EMBO Rep 10(1):2-6. doi: 10.1038/embor.2008.233
10. Bosch X, Ross JS (2012) Ghostwriting: research misconduct, plagiarism, or fool's gold? Am J Med 125(4):324-326. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.07.015
11. Ross JS, Hill KP, Egilman DS, Krumholz HM (2008) Guest authorship and ghostwriting in publications related to rofecoxib: a case study of industry documents from rofecoxib litigation. JAMA 299(15):1800-1812. doi: 10.1001/jama.299.15.1800
12. Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, Cocco G, Kitas GD (2012) Adverse cardiovascular effects of antirheumatic drugs: implications for clinical practice and research. Curr Pharm Des 18(11):1543-1555. doi: 10.2174/138161212799504759
13. Butler D (2008) Iranian paper sparks sense of déjà vu. Nature 455(7216):1019. doi: 10.1038/4551019a
14. Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, Blackmore H, Kitas GD (2011) Writing a narrative biomedical review: considerations for authors, peer reviewers, and editors. Rheumatol Int 31(11):1409-1417. doi: 10.1007/s00296-011-1999-3
15. Leek JT, Taub MA, Pineda FJ (2011) Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. PLoS ONE 6(11):e26895. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026895
16. Marusić M, Bozikov J, Katavić V, Hren D, Kljaković-Gaspić M, Marusić A (2004) Authorship in a small medical journal: a study of contributorship statements by corresponding authors. Sci Eng Ethics 10(3):493-502
17. Dotson B, Slaughter RL (2011) Prevalence of articles with honorary and ghost authors in three pharmacy journals. Am J Health Syst Pharm 68(18):1730-1734
18. Bonekamp S, Halappa VG, Corona-Villalobos CP, Mensa M, Eng J, Lewin JS, Kamel IR (2012) Prevalence of honorary coauthorship in the American journal of roentgenology. Am J Roentgenol 198(6):1247-1255
19. Wislar JS, Flanagin A, Fontanarosa PB, Deangelis CD (2011) Honorary and ghost authorship in high impact biomedical journals: a cross sectional survey. BMJ 343:d6128. doi: 10.1136/bmj.d6128
20. Marušić A, Bošnjak L, Jerončić A (2011) A systematic review of research on the meaning, ethics and practices of authorship across scholarly disciplines. PLoS ONE 6(9):e23477. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023477
21. Baerlocher MO, Newton M, Gautam T, Tomlinson G, Detsky AS (2007) The meaning of author order in medical research. J Investig Med 55(4):174-180. doi: 10.2310/6650.2007.06044
22. Costas R, Bordons M (2011) Do age and professional rank influence the order of authorship in scientific publications? Some evidence from a micro-level perspective. Scientometrics 88(1):145-161. doi: 10.1007/s11192-011-0368-z
23. Salita JT (2010) Authorship practices in Asian cultures. The Write Stuff 19(1):36-38
24. Wang F, Tang L, Bo L, Li J, Deng X (2012) Equal contributions and credit given to authors in critical care medicine journals during a 10-yr period. Crit Care Med 40(3):967-969
25. Tao T, Bo L, Wang F, Li J, Deng X (2012) Equal contributions and credit given to authors in anesthesiology journals during a 10-year period. Scientometrics 91(3):1005-1010. doi: 10.1007/s11192-011-0558-8
26. Hu W, Sun L, Gao J, Li Y, Wang P, Cheng Y, Pan T, Han J, Liu Y, Lu W, Zuo X, Sheng Y, Yao S, He C, Yu Z, Yin X, Cui Y, Yang S, Zhang X (2011) Down-regulated expression of IKZF1 mRNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatol Int 31(6):819-822. doi: 10.1007/s00296-010-1576-1
27. Akhabue E, Lautenbach E (2010) "Equal" contributions and credit: an emerging trend in the characterization of authorship. Ann Epidemiol 20(11):868-871. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.08.004
28. Rennie D, Yank V, Emanuel L (1997) When authorship fails: a proposal to make contributors accountable. JAMA 278:579-585. doi: 10.1001/jama.1997. 03550070071041
29. Smith R (1997) Authorship is dying: long live contributorship. BMJ 315(7110):696
30. Carter S (2010) Authorship: definitions and declarations - a perspective from the BMJ. The Write Stuff 19(1):18
31. Rohlfing T, Poline JB (2012) Why shared data should not be acknowledged on the author byline. Neuroimage 59(4):4189-4195. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage. 2011.09.080
32. Smith R (2012) Let's simply scrap authorship and move to contributorship. BMJ 344:e157. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e157
33. Macrina FL (2011) Teaching authorship and publication practices in the biomedical and life sciences. Sci Eng Ethics 17(2):341-354. doi: 10.1007/s11948-011-9275-1
34. Scott-Lichter D (2012) Authorship disputes: me first, me equally, me too, not me. Learn Publ 25(2):83-85. doi: 10.1087/20120201
35. Kisacik B, Kalyoncu U, Erol MF, Karadag O, Yildiz M, Akdogan A, Kaptanoglu B, Hayran M, Ureten K, Ertenli I, Kiraz S, Calguneri M (2007) Accurate diagnosis of acute abdomen in FMF and acute appendicitis patients: how can we use procalcitonin? Clin Rheumatol 26(12):2059-2062. doi: 10.1007/s10067-007-0617-y
36. Kisacik B, Kasifoglu T, Akay S, Yilmaz O, Yilmaz S, Simsek I, Erdem H, Pay S, Dinc A (2010) Ulnar artery aneurysm in a patient with Behçet's disease. Rheumatol Int 30(3):383-385. doi: 10.1007/s00296-009-0951-2
37. Kisacik B, Yildirim B, Tasliyurt T, Ozyurt H, Ozyurt B, Yuce S, Kaya S, Ertenli I, Kiraz S (2009) Increased frequency of familial Mediterranean fever in northern Turkey: a population-based study. Rheumatol Int 29(11):1307-1309. doi: 10.1007/s00296-009-0849-z
38. Cagatay T, Aydin M, Sunmez S, Cagatay P, Gulbaran Z, Gul A, Artim B, Kilicaslan Z (2010) Follow-up results of 702 patients receiving tumor necrosis factor-α antagonists and evaluation of risk of tuberculosis. Rheumatol Int 30(11):1459-1463. doi: 10.1007/s00296-009-1170-6
39. Wager E, Kleinert S on behalf of COPE Council. Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases: guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). March 2012. Available at http://publicationethics.org/files/Research-institutions-guidelines-final.pdf. Accessed 20 May 2012
40. Gasparyan AY (2011) Familiarizing with science editors' associations. Croat Med J 52(6):735-739. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2011.52.735
41. Habibzadeh F, Marcovitch H (2012) Authorship dispute among the league of extraordinary gentlemen. Eur Sci Editing 38(2):40-41
42. EASE guidelines for authors and translators of scientific articles to be published in English. Available at http://www.ease.org.uk/sites/default/files/ ease-guidelines-june2011c.pdf. Accessed 2 June 2012
43. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: ethical considerations in the conduct and reporting of research: authorship and contributorship. Available at http://www.icmje.org/ethical-1author.html. Accessed 22 May 2012
44. CSE's white paper on promoting integrity in scientific journal publications, 2012 update. Editorial Policy Committee (2011-2012) Available at http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/files/public/entire-whitepaper.pdf. Accessed 20 May 2012
45. Wager E (2007) Do medical journals provide clear and consistent guidelines on authorship? MedGenMed 9(3):16
46. Jaykaran Yadav P, Chavda N, Kantharia ND (2011) Survey of "instructions to authors" of Indian medical journals for reporting of ethics and authorship criteria. Indian J Med Ethics 8(1):36-38
47. Samad A, Khanzada TW, Siddiqui AA (2009) Do the instructions to authors of Pakistani medical journals convey adequate guidance for authorship criteria? Pak J Med Sci 25(6):879-882
48. Wager L (2010) Authorship - more than just writing, but how much more? The Write Stuff 19(1):19-21
49. Wager E, Kleinert S, Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd world conference on research integrity, Singapore, 22-24 July 2010. Available at http://publicationethics.org/files/International%20standards-authors- for%20website-11-Nov-2011.pdf. Accessed 2 June 2012
50. http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/All-flowcharts.pdf. Accessed 20 May 2012
51. Policy Statements. Prepared by the WAME editorial policy committee. Available at http://www.wame.org/resources/policies. Accessed 20 May 2012
52. Schöffel N, Mache S, Quarcoo D, Scutaru C, Vitzthum K, Groneberg DA, Spallek M (2010) Rheumatoid arthritis: scientific development from a critical point of view. Rheumatol Int 30(4):505-513. doi: 10.1007/s00296-009-1005-5
53. Pile K (2009) Publish or perish. Int J Rheum Dis 12(3):183-185. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-185X.2009.01408.x