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Accountability in Research
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Responsible Authorship: Why Researchers Must Forgo Honorary Authorship

Pages 76-90 | Published online: 03 Mar 2011

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Marie K. Norman, Chelsea N. Proulx, Doris M. Rubio & Colleen A. Mayowski. (2023) Reducing tensions and expediting manuscript submission via an authorship agreement for early-career researchers: A pilot study. Accountability in Research 30:7, pages 379-392.
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Bor Luen Tang. (2023) In defense of the ICMJE authorship guideline, a rejoinder to Curzer. Accountability in Research 0:0, pages 1-13.
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Barton Moffatt. (2019) More on plurality and authorship in science: A reply to Tang. Accountability in Research 26:5, pages 347-350.
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Bor Luen Tang. (2018) Letter to the editor: On plurality and authorship in science. Accountability in Research 25:4, pages 254-258.
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Barton Moffatt. (2018) Scientific authorship, pluralism, and practice. Accountability in Research 25:4, pages 199-211.
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Jeffrey I. Seeman & Mark C. House. (2015) Authorship Issues and Conflict in the U.S. Academic Chemical Community. Accountability in Research 22:6, pages 346-383.
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Barton Moffatt. (2013) Orphan Papers and Ghostwriting: The Case against the ICMJE Criterion of Authorship. Accountability in Research 20:2, pages 59-71.
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A.A. Khalifa. (2022) Losing young researchers in the authorship battle, under-reported casualties. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health 20, pages 100735.
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V. N. Gureev, N. A. Mazov & I. G. Lakizo. (2019) Authorship criteria and the problem of its attribution in scholarly papers. Scientific and Technical Libraries:12, pages 5-24.
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V. N. Gureev, I. G. Lakizo & N. A. Mazov. (2020) Unethical Authorship in Scientific Publications (A Review of the Problem). Scientific and Technical Information Processing 46:4, pages 219-232.
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Adam G. Pfleegor, Matthew Katz & Matthew T. Bowers. (2017) Publish, Perish, or Salami Slice? Authorship Ethics in an Emerging Field. Journal of Business Ethics 156:1, pages 189-208.
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Bor Luen Tang. (2018) Responding to devious demands for co-authorship: A rejoinder to Bülow and Helgesson’s ‘dirty hands’ justification. Research Ethics 14:4, pages 1-7.
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Barton Moffatt. (2014) Research funding and authorship: does grant winning count towards authorship credit?. Journal of Medical Ethics 40:10, pages 683-686.
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