Who gets credit? Survey digs into the thorny question of authorship (original) (raw)
- NEWS
- 29 May 2018
Most researchers agree that drafting papers and interpreting results deserve recognition — but opinions don’t always match authorship guidelines.
Opinions about which research contributions deserve authorship credit on a scholarly paper vary markedly across scientific disciplines — and even within the same field, a survey of thousands of researchers reveals. More than two-thirds of respondents said they would grant authorship to someone who interpreted data or drafted the manuscript. But nearly half would almost never or only sometimes grant authorship to people who secured their funding.
References
- Patience, G. S., Galli, F., Patience, P. A. & Boffito, D. C. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/323519 (2018).