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Examine the rise of unethical authorship practices driven by academic publication pressure and evaluate why international journal guidelines fail to prevent them.

May 27, 2003Emergency Medicine

Unethical practices in authorship of scientific papers

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DBDianne BennettManchester University NHS Foundation Trust DTDavid McD TaylorBrooke Army Medical Center

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Narrative review uncovers pervasive unethical authorship practices across biomedical publishing, highlighting systemic failures of international editorial guidelines to curb misconduct.

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Examine the rise of unethical authorship practices driven by academic publication pressure and evaluate why international journal guidelines fail to prevent them.
Narrative analysis evaluating decades of publication trends regarding multi-authored papers in scientific and biomedical journals.
Conceptual review of standard editorial oversight policies, focusing on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors guidelines.
Identifies distinct authorship abuses within biomedical research, including guest, pressured, and ghost authorship, as well as divided and duplicate publication.
Demonstrates that author responsibility is diluted and credit within by-lines is actively obfuscated despite established editorial frameworks.

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Bennett et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7bdd205ee2ba81dbed961 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00432.x

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Narrative review uncovers pervasive unethical authorship practices across biomedical publishing, highlighting systemic failures of international editorial guidelines to curb misconduct.

Unethical practices in authorship of scientific papers

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Unethical practices in authorship of scientific papers

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