Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 2014 Volume 142, Issue 9-10, Pages: 637-640
https://doi.org/10.2298/SARH1410637V
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Multiauthorship and false authorship: Why worrying about this?
Vučković-Dekić Ljiljana (Serbian Medical Society, Academy of Medical Sciences, Belgrade)
Authorship and authorship abuse are in the focus of interest of all main
actors in the publication game - authors, reviewers and editors of scientific
journals. Along with the steady rise of the number of publications, the
number of coauthors in multiauthored papers raises even more, some of them
being undeserved authors. Because publication is the main way for evaluating
scientists, authorship is prone to abuse, and thus the false/undeserved/gift
authorship emerges. This dilutes the responsibility and damages the
publication enterprise, thus initiating a constant struggle of scientific
community against this type of scientific dishonesty. In this paper, several
prevention and corrective measures with the aim to diminish such a dishonest
behavior of authors are described.
Keywords: scholarly publications, multiauthorship, authorship misuse, evaluation