Internet ethics resources on authorship:

Ethics CORE results for authorship:

Teaching Materials

• Two-Minute Challenge: Authorship
• Scenario Packet: Authorship
• Situation 3: Authorship
• Case Study: Joint Authorship of a Paper, from the National Society of Professional Engineers (2006).
• Responsible Authorship Quick Guide (former title: Responsible Conduct of Research: Authorship) at Northern Illinois University (2006).
• RCR: Responsible Authorship and Peer Review, a noncredit online module at Columbia University (2004).

Articles (newest-oldest)

• "Responsible authorship in engineering fields: An overview of current ethical challenges" by Jason Borenstein, Science and Engineering Ethics (2011).
• "Credit where credit is due? Regulation, research integrity and the attribution of authorship in the health sciences" by Jackie M. Street, Wendy A. Rogers, Mark Israel, and Annette J. Braunack-Mayer, Social Science & Medicine (2010).
• "Credit and authorship practices: educational and environmental influences" by Mark C. House and Jeffrey I. Seeman, Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance (2010).
• "Influences on authorship issues: An evaluation of receiving, not receiving, and rejecting credit" by and Jeffrey I. Seeman and Mark C. House, Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance (2010).
• "Programmers, professors, and parasites: Credit and co-authorship in computer science" by Justin Solomon, Science and Engineering Ethics (2009).
• "Encouraging research collaboration through ethical and fair authorship: A model policy" by Jason L. Washburn, Ethics & Behavior (2008).
• "Ethical and legal considerations regarding disputed authorship with the use of shared data" by Robert Welsh, Craig Lareau, Jeanne Clevenger, and Mark Reger, Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance (2008).
• "Everyday ethics in research: Translating authorship guidelines into practice in the bench sciences" by Karen Seashore Louis, Janet M. Holdsworth, Melissa S. Anderson, and Eric G. Campbell, Journal of Higher Education (2008).
• "Authorship decision making: An empirical investigation" by Robyn Geelhoed, Julia Phillips, Ann Fischer, Elaine Shpungin, and Younnjung Gong, Ethics & Behavior (2007).
• "Authorship and Publication Practices: Evaluation of the effect of responsible conduct of research instruction to postdoctoral trainees" by Kirsten Barrett, Carolyn Funk, and Francis Macrina, Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance (2007).
• "An analytic hierarchy process model to apportion co-author responsibility" by Theodore J. Sheskin, Science and Engineering Ethics (2006).
• "Graduate students and the culture of authorship" by Sarah Oberlander and Robert Spencer, Ethics & Behavior (2006).
• "Put my name on that paper: Reflections on the ethics of authorship" by Martin McKneally, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2006).
• "Awareness of publication guidelines and the responsible conduct of research" by Kirsten Barrett, Carolyn Funk, and Francis Macrina, Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance (2005).
• "Authorship in a small medical journal: A study of contributorship statements by corresponding authors" by Vedran Katavic, Matko Marusic, and Jadranka Bosikov, Science and Engineering Ethics (2004).
• "Can authorship policies help prevent scientific misconduct? What role for scientific societies? " by Anne Hudson Jones, Science and Engineering Ethics (2003).
• "Responsible authorship and peer review" by James R. Wilson, Science and Engineering Ethics (2002).
• "Deciphering the authorship code" by M.L. Callaham and J.F. Waeckerle, Annals of Emergency Medicine (2001).
• "Multiple authorship: the contribution of senior authors" by J.P. Drenth, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association (1998).
• "Prevalence of articles with honorary authors and ghost authors in peer-reviewed medical journals" by A. Flanagin et al., JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association (1998).
• "When authorship fails--A proposal to make contributors accountable" by D. Yank Rennie and L.V. Emanuel, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association (1997).
• "A proposal for a new system of credit allocation in science" by David B. Resnick, Science and Engineering Ethics (1997).
• "Professional standards for joint authorship and the assigning of credit for joint publications" by Anthony J. Greco, J. Brooke Hamilton III, and John R. Tanner, Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal (1996).
• "Proliferation of authors on research reports in medicine" by Joost P.H. Drenth, Science and Engineering Ethics (1996).
• "Policies and perspectives on authorship" by Mary Rose and Karla Fischer, Science and Engineering Ethics (1995).
• "Reflections on Determining Authorship Credit and Authorship order on Faculty-Student Collaborations" by Mark A. Fine and Lawrence A. Kurdek, American Psychologist (1993).
• "The noncontributing author: An issue of credit and responsibility" by Roger P. Croll, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (1984).
• "The Matthew effect in science" by Robert K. Merton, Science (1968).

Authorship Issues in the News

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