Awareness, usage and perceptions of authorship guidelines: an international survey of biomedical authors
| dc.rights.license | open | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | SCHROTER, S. | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Bordeaux population health [BPH] | |
| dc.contributor.author | MONTAGNI, Ilaria
ORCID: 0000-0003-0076-0010 IDREF: 258573880 | |
| dc.contributor.author | LODER, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | EIKERMANN, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | SCHAFFNER, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | KURTH, T. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-16T14:30:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-16T14:30:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2044-6055 (Electronic) 2044-6055 (Linking) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/26259 | |
| dc.description.abstractEn | Objectives To investigate authors’ awareness and use of authorship guidelines, and to assess their perceptions of the fairness of authorship decisions. Design A cross-sectional online survey. Setting and participants Corresponding authors of research papers submitted in 2014 to 18 BMJ journals. Results 3859/12 646 (31%) researchers responded. They worked in 93 countries and varied in research experience. Of these, 1326 (34%) reported their institution had an authorship policy providing criteria for authorship; 2871 (74%) were ‘very familiar’ with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ authorship criteria and 3358 (87%) reported that guidelines were beneficial when preparing manuscripts. Furthermore, 2609 (68%) reported that their use was ‘sometimes’ or ‘frequently’ encouraged in their research setting. However, 2859 respondents (74%) reported that they had been involved in a study at least once where someone was added as an author who had not contributed substantially (honorary authorship), and 1305 (34%) where someone was not listed as an author but had contributed substantially (ghost authorship). Only 740 (19%) reported that they had never experienced either honorary or ghost authorship; 1115 (29%) reported that they had experienced both at least once. There was no clear pattern in experience of authorship misappropriation by continent. For their last coauthored article, 2187 (57%) reported that explicit authorship criteria had been used to determine eligibility, and 3088 (80%) felt that the decision made was fair. When institutions frequently encouraged use of authorship guidelines, authorship eligibility was more likely to be discussed early (817 of 1410, 58%) and perceived as fairer (1273 of 1410, 90%) compared with infrequent encouragement (974 of 2449, 40%, and 1891 of 2449, 74%). Conclusions Despite a high level of awareness of authorship guidelines and criteria, these are not so widely used; more explicit encouragement of their use by institutions may result in more favourable use of guidelines by authors. | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.subject | HEALTHY | |
| dc.title.en | Awareness, usage and perceptions of authorship guidelines: an international survey of biomedical authors | |
| dc.title.alternative | BMJ Open | en_US |
| dc.type | Article de revue | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-036899 | en_US |
| dc.subject.hal | Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pubmed | 32958486 | en_US |
| bordeaux.journal | BMJ Open | en_US |
| bordeaux.page | e036899 | en_US |
| bordeaux.volume | 10 | en_US |
| bordeaux.hal.laboratories | Bordeaux Population Health Research Center (BPH) - U1219 | en_US |
| bordeaux.issue | 9 | en_US |
| bordeaux.institution | Université de Bordeaux | en_US |
| bordeaux.team | HEALTHY_BPH | |
| bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | en_US |
| bordeaux.inpress | non | en_US |
| hal.identifier | hal-03143099 | |
| hal.version | 1 | |
| hal.date.transferred | 2021-02-16T14:30:39Z | |
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