Authorship Ethics: A Practical Approach

Authorship gives publishing credit and is the “medium of exchange” in the competitive environment of academia, used in performance reviews, salaries, and funding. However, conferring authorship often results in ethical dilemmas in academic medicine because of uneven power relationships that may impair objective decisions and result in a lac k of scientific integrity.1,2 Critically, ethical problems in authorship are much more common than data fabrication, modification, and falsification.3,4
Source: American Journal of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research