Multiple authorship: trends over 50 years in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

Howard, Meghan; Walker, Rebecca

doi:10.15288/jsa.1996.57.105

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“…Hence, as it currently stands, the system rewards increasingly heavily multiauthored papers. As a consequence, over the past 50 years the number of authors per paper has been increasing (Lindsey 1980;Regalado 1995;Drenth 1996;Howard and Walker 1996;Quencer 1998;Cronin 2001). Fifty years ago single authorship was the norm, but these days it is extremely uncommon.…”

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“…That is no longer the case. With the rise in the number of authors per paper, authorship in itself has become a highly debated field of study (Lindsey 1980;Regalado 1995;Drenth 1996;Howard and Walker 1996;Erlen et al 1997;Quencer 1998;Cronin 2001;Hama and Kusano 2001;Rahman and Muirhead-Allwood 2010). Throughout all authorship guidelines, there is always the caveat that conditions for authorship vary among disciplines.…”

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Ethics of Using Language Editing Services in An Era of Digital Communication and Heavily Multi-Authored Papers

Lozano¹

2013

Sci Eng Ethics

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Scientists of many countries in which English is not the primary language routinely use a variety of manuscript preparation, correction or editing services, a practice that is openly endorsed by many journals and scientific institutions. These services vary tremendously in their scope; at one end there is simple proof-reading, and at the other extreme there is in-depth and extensive peer-reviewing, proposal preparation, statistical analyses, re-writing and co-writing. In this paper, the various types of service are reviewed, along with authorship guidelines, and the question is raised of whether the high-end services surpass most guidelines' criteria for authorship. Three other factors are considered. First, the ease of collaboration possible in the internet era allows multiple iterations between the author(s) and the "editing service", so essentially, papers can be co-written. Second, "editing services" often offer subject-specific experts who comment not only on the language, but interpret and improve scientific content. Third, the trend towards heavily multi-authored papers implies that the threshold necessary to earn authorship is declining. The inevitable conclusion is that at some point the contributions by "editing services" should be deemed sufficient to warrant authorship. Trying to enforce any guidelines would likely be futile, but nevertheless, it might be time to revisit the ethics of using some of the high-end "editing services". In an increasingly international job market, awareness of this problem might prove increasingly important in authorship disputes, the allocation of research grants, and hiring decisions.

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Ethics of Using Language Editing Services in An Era of Digital Communication and Heavily Multi-Authored Papers

Lozano¹

2013

Sci Eng Ethics

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“…The increasing tendency for the publication of collaborative work can also be seen in the journal level. As an example, that the collaboration index score of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is 4.51, which is a notable increase from the index score of 3.13 observed in the period 1990 to 1991 (Howard and Walker, ). Our results show an average collaboration index score of 4.8 for journal articles published between 2005 and 2009, although the specialized medical journals, such as Neoplasms or Gastroenterology , tend to have higher score than journals from the fields of psychosocial or public health.…”

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Scientific Publications and Research Groups on Alcohol Consumption and Related Problems Worldwide: Authorship Analysis of Papers Indexed inPubMed andScopus Databases (2005 to 2009)

González‐Alcaide

Castelló‐Cogollos

Castellano-Gómez

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Research on alcohol is a consolidated field, with an average of 4,820 documents published each year between 2005 and 2009 in MEDLINE and Scopus. Alcohol-related publications have a marked multidisciplinary nature. Collaboration was common among alcohol researchers. There is an underrepresentation of alcohol-related publications in languages other than English and from developing countries, in MEDLINE and Scopus databases.

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“…Drs Louise Robinovitch (Paris, France), Lucy Hall (Sherburne, Massachusetts) and Agnes Sparks (Brooklyn, New York) penned papers that called attention to the special needs of addicted women. In light of the fact that single authorship of scientific papers in the addictions field has become rare [18], it is interesting to note that only three major papers and one review were co‐authored in the entire history of the JI .…”

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The Journal of Inebriety (1876–1914): history, topical analysis, and photographic images

Weiner¹,

White

2006

Addiction

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Multiple authorship: trends over 50 years in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

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Ethics of Using Language Editing Services in An Era of Digital Communication and Heavily Multi-Authored Papers

Ethics of Using Language Editing Services in An Era of Digital Communication and Heavily Multi-Authored Papers

Scientific Publications and Research Groups on Alcohol Consumption and Related Problems Worldwide: Authorship Analysis of Papers Indexed inPubMed andScopus Databases (2005 to 2009)

The Journal of Inebriety (1876–1914): history, topical analysis, and photographic images

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