Authorship Malpractices in Developing Countries

Rivera, Horacio

doi:10.47316/cajmhe.2020.1.1.11

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“…A not uncommon practice is that mentors are gifted rst authors even if they have not contributed to the research. Revera discussed authorship malpractice, including "authorship disputes, excessive coauthorship, monetary incentives, authorship issues in student-mentor relationships" [39].…”

Section: Navigating the Publishing Processmentioning

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Challenges Facing Arab Researchers in Publishing Scientific Research: A Qualitative Interview Study

Elgamri

Mohammed

Rhazi

et al. 2023

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Background Studies have shown an underrepresentation of researchers from lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the research literature compared with their counterparts in high-income countries. We aimed to explore Arab researchers' challenges regarding conducting and publishing research in peer-reviewed journals. Methods We used a descriptive qualitative study design of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Using purposive sampling, we recruited participants from four Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and translated to English if the original language was Arabic or French. We analyzed the transcripts using reflexive thematic analysis. Several authors independently coded the transcripts and agreed on the identified codes, themes, and subthemes. Results We performed 17 interviews: three from Egypt, six from Jordan, four from Morocco, and four from Sudan. Our participants' comments were divided into three broad categories with associated themes and subthemes. The first regards the conduct of research (themes of inadequate quality of research, insufficient research resources, and nonsuppurative research environment). The second category involves the publishing process (themes of poor scientific writing skills and difficulties navigating the publishing and peer-reviewed system). The third regards international collaborations and the final category recommends methods to address the challenges. Our recommendations include: enhancing the institutional research culture, increasing funding mechanisms, establishing mentoring programs and workshops on research methodology and scientific writing, and increasing the representation of LMICs on the editorial staff. Conclusions Identifying the challenges of Arab researchers in publishing original and quality research would guide programs tailored and targeted toward Arab scholars' needs.

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Section: Navigating the Publishing Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges Facing Arab Researchers in Publishing Scientific Research: A Qualitative Interview Study

Elgamri

Mohammed

Rhazi

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…The challenge to editors could be even greater for editors of journals in Kazakhstan and Central Asia where research and publishing infrastructure, regulations, ethics, and oversight might still be nascent or underdeveloped [23]. However, authorship malpractice is not necessarily regional, nor is it restricted to developing nations, and is a global phenomenon [24] due to the predominantly digital nature of current academic publishing. This suggests that solutions for editors in Kazakhstan and Central Asia would be identical to those of editors in other regions of the world.…”

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The Abuse of Authorship in the Biomedical Literature

Teixeira da Silva

2023

CAJMHE

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The ‘publish or perish’ culture has induced an unhealthy aspect of academic publishing in the biomedical sciences, namely of illegitimate authorship. Such a position can be obtained when an authorship slot is offered as a gift (e.g., to a sponsor, or researcher in a senior position), without their intellectual or scientific participation, or it can be hidden (ghost authorship), in which the paper (or parts thereof) is written by a third party (individual, or company). In a more industrialized setting, ghost authorship takes place via the sale of papers using “paper mills”, including of specific author slots (i.e., positions in a line of authors). While author-based persistent identifiers like ORCID, or authorship attribution schemes like CRediT, sound noble and offer some form of validation, those systems still operate on a culture of blind trust (in submitting authors). This paper debates a few of the authorship-related issues currently plaguing biomedical journals.

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“… 33 It remains to be seen whether such monetary incentives will also be canceled in other countries that operate similar programs. 39 In brief, the basic solution for the malpractices discussed here and related misconduct, is to abolish the current system of perverse incentives in scientific publications for both authors and editors. Otherwise, sly agents will usually circumvent control measures by introducing fresh ways of gaming the publication system.…”

Section: Anti-retraction Strategies and Pro-integrity Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%