Authorship

Authors: Arda, Berna
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Publication ethics, an important subtopic of science ethics, deals with determination of the misconducts of science in performing research or in the dissemination of ideas, data and products. Science, the main features of which are ...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9256-4

Authors: Smith, Elise ; Williams-Jones, Bryn
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: While there has been significant discussion in the health sciences and ethics literatures about problems associated with publication practices (e.g., ghost- and gift-authorship, conflicts of interest), there has been relatively litt...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9263-5

Authors: Song, Edward
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: Issues of academic authorship pose few problems for philosophers or those in the humanities, yet raise a host of issues for medical researchers, engineers and scientists, where multiple authors is the norm and journal articles somet...
Year: 2011

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Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An editor of a journal has an extremely difficult time getting reviewers for a paper, and the reviewers she does get take a long time in reviewing the paper. After nine months, the author complains that a tenure decision is forthcom...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case83

Authors: Tarnow, Eugen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: A questionnaire probing the distribution of authorship credit was given to postdoctoral associates ("postdocs") in order to determine their awareness of the professional society's ethical statement on authorship, the extent of commu...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/2963/resessays/authorship.aspx
DOI: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u6374371u7144248/?p=45e21b725e5343d7b0dc27a7335611e4&pi=5

Authors: Wilson, James
Publication Type: Online Tutorial
Abstract: Responsible Authorship and Peer Review presents the basic issues facing researchers at the publication stage of research. We focus on some of the ethical values particularly relevant to publication: honesty, objectivity, trust, coll...
Year: 2000
URL: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/esence/294/

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are the editor of a scientific journal in the field of abnormal psychology. A paper recently submitted to your journal to be considered for publication reports the results of studies conducted at UCLA a decade ago involving schi...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Relapse.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In May of 1996 Professor Alan Sokol, a physicist at New York University, caused an uproar in some quarters of the academic world by disclosing that an article of his appearing that month in an academic journal focusing upon an inter...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Hoax.pdf

Authors: University of Delaware, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Undergraduate Science Education Program ; White, Harold B.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Madge discovers that the project she has been working on is being published without her name because her research supervisor thinks her contributions do not merit coauthorship....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/HHMI3/OrganicRxn.doc

Authors: University of Delaware, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Undergraduate Science Education Program ; White, Harold B.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Undergraduate Ernest Lee discovers that his results are too hot for public consumption and is told by his superisor, Dr. Greene, that he cannot present his research at a national meeting because they aren't ready to publish yet. (Sc...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/HHMI3/TrippedUp.doc

Authors: Scott-Lichter, Diane ; Robinson, Andrew ; Fiack, Suzan ; Bowman, Alyson ; Wager, Elizabeth ; Graf, Chris
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Clinical Practice
Abstract: These Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics describe Blackwell Publishing's position on the major ethical principles of academic publishing and review factors that may foster ethical behavior or create problems. The aims ar...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2006.01230.x

Authors: Wager, Elizabeth
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: PLoS Medicine
Abstract: Since the earliest peer-reviewed publications of the late 17th century, conventions about the authorship of scientific papers—which were generally anonymous and attributed to the sponsor (in those days, usually the church or the kin...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040034

Authors: Altman, Douglas G. ; Haahr, Mette T. ; Johansen, Helle Krogh ; Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn ; Chan, An-Wen ; Gøtzsche, Peter C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: PLoS Medicine
Abstract: Ghost authorship, the failure to name, as an author, an individual who has made substantial contributions to an article, may result in lack of accountability. The prevalence and nature of ghost authorship in industry-initiated rando...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040019

Authors: Couzin, J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: Even after a research misconduct investigation is complete, fraudulent papers often linger as part of the scientific record for years to come. And scientists often mistakenly cite these papers unknowingly. ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/312/5770/38.full
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5770.38

Authors: Unger, Katherine ; Couzin, Jennifer
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: Even after being retracted from journals, many papers still linger as part of the scientific record. Scientists often cite retracted papers without knowing their current status, thereby tainting their own paper and reputation. ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/312/5770/40.full
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5770.40

Authors: Rennie, Drummond ; Sox, Harold C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Annuals of Internal Medicine
Abstract: In September 2003, the Annals editor, Dr. Sox, received a troubling letter from the provost of the University of Vermont in Burlington. The university had investigated alleged research misconduct by a former faculty member, Eric Poe...
Year: 2006
URL: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=722445

Authors: Sample, Ian
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Secondary Title: Guardian
Abstract: This article tells the background story of the cloning of Dolly the sheep. While Dolly brought fame and admiration to Professor Ian Wilmut, the head of the research group in charge of the project at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/mar/11/genetics.highereducation1

Authors: University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System ; Tannery, Nancy ; Wessel, Charles
Publication Type: Online Tutorial
Abstract: This is an online education modules to teach researchers the fundamentals of responsible literature searching for research practices. ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/services/responsible_literature_searching

Authors: Korn, David ; Ehringhaus, Susan ; Association of American Medical Colleges
Publication Type: Guidelines & Regulations
Abstract: This set of guidelines seeks to provide a set of principles, recommendations, and gudelines, rooted in sound science and sound ethics, to guide medical schools, teaching hospitals, and professional societies on the ethical issues th...
Year: 9999
URL: https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/clinicalresearch/clinicaltrialsreporting/

Authors: American Psychological Association Science Student Council
Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: This guide seeks to explain some of the details of authorship in scientific publication and offers some advice to graduate students on how to determine who should be author on a paper and negotiate where in the authorship listing th...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.apa.org/science/leadership/students/authorship-paper.pdf

Authors: Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: EMBO reports
Abstract: This article discusses some of the ethical issues that come up as part of the competition to publish research in the life sciences. The author looks at the increasingly collaborative nature of science, and discusses some ways in whi...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.161

Authors: Venkatraman, Vijaysree
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: Article discusses the differences in how authors are listed in scientific laboratories around the country, and while many journals have published guidelines on how to determine who is an author, there is no set protocol on how decis...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.a1000039

Authors: Weil, Vivian ; Arzbaecher, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics
Abstract: This article discusses the ethical issues that can arise within scientific research, especially in collaborative projects. The authors discuss how the environment and management of the research group can give rise to either trust or...
Year: 1996

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Authors: Navratil, Martin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: An industrial researcher shares his thoughts on the importance of research integrity. He discusses how he sees it as a a component of his company's business integrity, the importance of integrity in technical communication, and how ...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Web Guide to Research for Undergraduates
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An undergraduate student shares his data with a graduate student interested in his research project. Later, the student finds out that a technical article authored by the graduate student includes text, figures and tables from the...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.webguru.neu.edu/professionalism/case-studies/its-all-about-sharing