All authors must have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content, consistent with
the authorship policy adopted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and published in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, 1994.
Creation and evolution of
an authorship policy framework at Melbourne Presenter: Daniel Barr, University of Melbourne, Australia Co-author: Paul Taylor, University of Melbourne, Australia
Relating the findings of a U.S. medical school survey, she reported that 65 % of respondents (77 medical schools) had either given up attempts to create their own
authorship policies or had never broached the subject, and a further six schools «reported that they did not know whether there were
authorship policies, or whether there had ever been discussions of such policies.»
Not exact matches
These
policies cover topics such as licensing, conflict of interest,
authorship, prepublication confidentiality, availability of data and materials, and research integrity.
The
authorship -
policy pendulum will probably swing further toward greater accountability before credit is again the driving force in decisions.
So wipe the dust off that huge binder and read your institution's
policies on
authorship.
«The underlying causes need to be investigated to help to identify practices and strategies to increase women's influence on and contributions to the evidence that will determine future healthcare
policies and standards of clinical practice,» Giovanni Filardo, PhD, MPH, and his co-authors wrote in the paper, titled «Trends and comparison of female first
authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994 - 2014).»
Science's
policy is specifically designed to support the
authorship requirements presented in On Being a Scientist: Third Edition, published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
As for the government assertion that anybody with palpitations about this arrangement should have objected ahead of time, that simply fails to address the core problem, which is using an advocacy group as the source of data, analysis, and
authorship for a federal report that is supposed to be
policy neutral.