Authorship and Publication Matters: Credit and Credibility

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A nesthesiology periodically updates our Instructions to Authors and communicates the changes broadly. This Editorial aims to provide brief summaries, background information, justifications, and applicability of the Journal policy updates, which are effective with this issue. These updates address the importance of recognizing the role of collaborators in research and mechanisms in Anesthesiology for doing so, qualifications for authorship in Anesthesiology, unacceptable types of authorship, salami publication versus appropriate use of segmented publication, acceptability of limited text recycling, and other elements of scientific integrity. Authorship: What Counts, Who Counts, Who Cares?Appropriate recognition for contributions to basic, clinical, and population research is an important aspect of scholarly publication. Anesthesiology strongly endorses the practice of appropriately crediting contributions to research publications toward the goals of giving proper recognition, fairness, and transparency for authors and readers, ensuring contemporary Journal best practices, and clarity of communication. Anesthesiology has for years provided multiple ways to offer appropriate credit on articles and communicate that credit through commensurate means of attribution and will continue to do so.What constitutes authorship is one of the most vexing problems in contemporary scholarly publishing, in part because there are no universal definitional standards of authorship. The sine qua non of authorship is a substantial intellectual contribution. Authorship denotes credit. Equally important is that authorship also denotes responsibility and accountability. Authorship credit and accountability are inseparable. Authorship is one form of credit, but other forms are more appropriate for work done that does not include all the necessary elements of authorship.Scholarly publications serve a dual purpose-one for which they were created and the other an unintended byproduct. The former is scientific communication, and the latter is use by institutions for assessment and reward. 1 Authorship is used in science to communicate research findings to peers and the public, denote credit and responsibility, document personal accomplishment, and advance careers, while it is used outside science by institutions whose interests often differ, such as for promotion and tenure processes, metrics of faculty productivity, and ranking institutional programs and reputations. 2,3 In both embodiments, communication and academia, authorship is "the currency of the political economy of scientific practice." 4 That primary currency of scientific credit ("coin of the realm") is reward assigned through peer Image: None (Journal icon).

Assessing the Publication Output in the Field of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine using Web of Science Database from 2011 to 2020

“…Considering the number of authors per publication, the fastest change is in the field of medicine. It is known that there has been a significant increase in the average number of APP in medical journals in studies conducted by different researchers at different times [ 52 ]. The abundance of clinical research and the increasing necessity of cooperation between sub-fields are among the main reasons for multi-authorship in the field of medicine [ 53 ].…”

Authorship practices in educational technology research

“…In these cases, a researcher receives credit for the research without having contributed to the piece of written work. In honorary authorship, a person's name is added because they are considered to be prestigious in the particular research area or within the institution (Kharasch et al, 2021). In gift authorship the addition of a person's name is done as a gift to someone who has had little to do with the research, in the hope that this will expand the other authors' networks or there will be some reciprocal arrangement in the future (Brand, 2012).…”

Analisis sitasi publikasi tentang repositori bidang studi perpustakaan pada Web of Science selama pandemi

“…Selain harus mempunyai kualitas yang bagus, terbitan secara berkala, editor yang mempunyai latar belakang keilmuan serta riwayat publikasi yang banyak, anggota editor yang harus bervariasi asal negaranya, serta terbitan yang harus mempunyai banyak sitasi merupakan hal-hal yang harus dipenuhi sebelum suatu jurnal terindeks oleh kedua lembaga tersebut. Terlebih lagi, daftar tunggu yang lama dikarenakan antrian banyak jurnal yang mengajukan indeksasi juga menyebabkan suatu jurnal lama dalam terindeks (Kharasch et al, 2021).…”