[Reflections on the authorship of the scientific studies]. / Reflexiones sobre la autoría de los estudios científicos.

This document aims to comment on the currently used concepts of authorship of scientific articles. Parallelly, the question of the order of the authors is discussed. The concept of authorship according to contribution and of the special case of the group publications is approached. Special emphasis has been made in the bibliographic search on obtaining publications from groups of Spanish authors to illustrate how the group signing of the publications in our setting is done. Finally, the Clinical Research Group in Primary Care (G-ICAP) makes a series of recommendations in order to facilitate decision-making on these subjects, both for the studies of the G-ICAP itself as well as for other scientific studies developed in the health sciences setting. (c) 2009 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.

Reflexiones sobre la autoría de los estudios científicos / Reflections on the authorship of the scientific studies

Este documento persigue reflexionar sobre los conceptos de autoría de artículos científicos que se utilizan en la actualidad. Paralelamente, se abordan la cuestión del ‘”ordende los autores”, donde se incide en el concepto de la autoría por contribución, y del “caso especial de las publicaciones en grupo”. En la búsqueda bibliográfica se hizo especial hincapié en conseguir publicaciones de grupos de autores españoles, para ilustrar cómo se maneja la firma de las publicaciones en grupo en nuestro ámbito. Finalmente, el Grupo de Investigación Clínica en Atención Primaria (G-ICAP) sugiere una serie de recomendaciones, con el objetivo de facilitar la toma de decisiones sobre estos temas, tanto para los estudios del propio G-ICAP, como para otros estudios científicos que se desarrollen en el ámbito de las ciencias de la salud (AU)

This document aims to comment on the currently used concepts of authorship of scientific articles. Parallelly, the question of the “order of the authors” is discussed. The concept of authorship according to contribution and of the “special case of the group publications” is approached. Special emphasis has been made in the bibliographic search on obtaining publications from groups of Spanish authors to illustrate how the group signing of the publications in our setting is done. Finally, the Clinical Research Group in Primary Care (G-ICAP) makes a series of recommendations in order to facilitate decision-making on these subjects, both for the studies of the G-ICAP itself as well as for other scientific studies developed in the health sciences setting (AU)