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Considering the fact that publications serve as an important criterion to evaluate the scienti c accomplishments of an individual within respective elds in academia, there has been an increasing trend to publish scienti c articles whereby multiple authors are de ned as primary, co-, or corresponding authors according to the roles performed. This article analyzes the authorship pattern in 4,561 papers (including 60 single-authored papers) from 1990 till 2020 of 94 academics who hold a position as professors and are a liated with the Faculty of Medicine at three di erent research universities in Malaysia. Only 708 papers (15.5% of 4,561 papers)