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Authorship in Research
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The role and definition of authorship in scientific and medical publishing has become increasingly complicated in recent years. With a proliferation of…
- Wolters Kluwer
- November 30, 2015
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In my earlier post on authorship, I had discussed ICME guidelines that help researchers in deciding whether a contributor qualifies to be an author or not.
- Dr. Shazia Khanam
- October 16, 2013
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With collaboration and mobility becoming the norm in research, there are cases where a manuscript might have more than one corresponding author. Do journals allow this?…
- Kakoli Majumder
- August 1, 2015
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The involvement of multiple individuals in different capacities naturally evokes the question of who should be credited and held accountable for the research published,…
- Mriganka Awati
- November 12, 2013
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The role of a corresponding author is an important one in the publication process. This post gives you a brief idea of what it means to be a corresponding author of a…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- January 2, 2018
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In the highly competitive world of academic publishing, authorship related problems are insreasing, with authors not getting credit for their work, disagreements between…
- Dr. Shazia Khanam
- October 16, 2013
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With digitalization and open access being the order of the day, science is becoming increasingly collaborative in nature. This article discusses authorship and how the…
- Kakoli Majumder
- May 5, 2014
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An author’s degree of contribution to a study can sometimes be identified by the order in which the names appear in the byline of the publication, but it is usually very…
- Wolters Kluwer
- June 27, 2018
We have heard of authors not being given credit for a work they have significantly contributed to. However, have you heard of any author who himself wishes to remain…
- Kakoli Majumder
- January 22, 2016
At the beginning of each scholarly article, beneath the title, is a list of the authors. We get so used to writing our name, together with the names of our co-authors…
- Nick Rushby
- January 15, 2018