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Healthy Skepticism Library item: 17259

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Publication type: Journal Article

Godlee F
More than 20% of articles have a 'guest' author, study shows
BMJ 2009 Sep 15;
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/339/sep15_2/b3783


Abstract:

At least a fifth of articles published in medical journals are likely to have a guest (or honorary) author, and journals are not doing enough to tackle the problem, say two studies presented at the Sixth International Congress of Peer Review and Biomedical Publication in Vancouver last week.

A guest author is someone who has not contributed sufficiently to the work but whose name is included in the list of authors. In a survey of corresponding authors of nearly 900 articles published in high impact general medical journals in 2008, 20% of respondents admitted that their paper had at least one guest author. In addition, nearly 8% admitted that their article had at least one ghost author-someone who had written the article or otherwise contributed substantially to the work but was not listed as an author.

The percentages of ghost or guest authors differed between the six journals studied and . . .

 

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