Coercion Authorship: Ubiquitous and Preventable.
J Korean Med Sci
; 39(30): e215, 2024 Aug 05.
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| ID: mdl-39106886
ABSTRACT
Coercion authorship (CA), typically enforced by principal investigators, has detrimental effects on graduate students, young researchers, and the entire scientific endeavor. Although CA is ubiquitous, its occurrence and major determinants have been mainly explored among graduate students and junior scientists in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark where the ratio of CA ranged from 13 to 40%. In addition to lacking comparable figures, developing countries usually lack institutional plans for promoting integrity and effective deterrents against CA and other malpractices. Hence, universities and research centers therein must publish their authorship policies and implement specific strategies to instruct graduate students, junior scientists, and experienced researchers on integrity, publishing ethics, and responsible authorship. Finally, I remark that the primary responsibility of principal researchers to promote fair authorship practices and discourage unfair ones is even greater when it comes to CA due to the asymmetrical power relationship between senior authors and novice scientists.
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Collection:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Authorship
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Coercion
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Korean Med Sci
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J. Korean Med. Sci
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Journal of Korean Medical Science
Journal subject:
MEDICINA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Mexico
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