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Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories
Authorship is the currency of an academic career for which the number of papers researchers publish demonstrates creativity, productivity, and impact. To discourage coercive authorship practices and inflated publication records, journals require authors to affirm and detail their intellectual contri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30650079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198117 |
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author | Patience, Gregory S. Galli, Federico Patience, Paul A. Boffito, Daria C. |
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description | Authorship is the currency of an academic career for which the number of papers researchers publish demonstrates creativity, productivity, and impact. To discourage coercive authorship practices and inflated publication records, journals require authors to affirm and detail their intellectual contributions but this strategy has been unsuccessful as authorship lists continue to grow. Here, we surveyed close to 6000 of the top cited authors in all science categories with a list of 25 research activities that we adapted from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) authorship guidelines. Responses varied widely from individuals in the same discipline, same level of experience, and same geographic region. Most researchers agreed with the NIH criteria and grant authorship to individuals who draft the manuscript, analyze and interpret data, and propose ideas. However, thousands of the researchers also value supervision and contributing comments to the manuscript, whereas the NIH recommends discounting these activities when attributing authorship. People value the minutiae of research beyond writing and data reduction: researchers in the humanities value it less than those in pure and applied sciences; individuals from Far East Asia and Middle East and Northern Africa value these activities more than anglophones and northern Europeans. While developing national and international collaborations, researchers must recognize differences in peoples values while assigning authorship. |
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spelling | pubmed-63349272019-01-31 Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories Patience, Gregory S. Galli, Federico Patience, Paul A. Boffito, Daria C. PLoS One Research Article Authorship is the currency of an academic career for which the number of papers researchers publish demonstrates creativity, productivity, and impact. To discourage coercive authorship practices and inflated publication records, journals require authors to affirm and detail their intellectual contributions but this strategy has been unsuccessful as authorship lists continue to grow. Here, we surveyed close to 6000 of the top cited authors in all science categories with a list of 25 research activities that we adapted from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) authorship guidelines. Responses varied widely from individuals in the same discipline, same level of experience, and same geographic region. Most researchers agreed with the NIH criteria and grant authorship to individuals who draft the manuscript, analyze and interpret data, and propose ideas. However, thousands of the researchers also value supervision and contributing comments to the manuscript, whereas the NIH recommends discounting these activities when attributing authorship. People value the minutiae of research beyond writing and data reduction: researchers in the humanities value it less than those in pure and applied sciences; individuals from Far East Asia and Middle East and Northern Africa value these activities more than anglophones and northern Europeans. While developing national and international collaborations, researchers must recognize differences in peoples values while assigning authorship. Public Library of Science 2019-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6334927/ /pubmed/30650079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198117 Text en © 2019 Patience et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Patience, Gregory S. Galli, Federico Patience, Paul A. Boffito, Daria C. Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories |
title | Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories |
title_full | Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories |
title_fullStr | Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories |
title_full_unstemmed | Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories |
title_short | Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories |
title_sort | intellectual contributions meriting authorship: survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30650079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198117 |
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