González GN, González TYS, Mena RAG

Language: Spanish
References: 5
Page: 118-120
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ABSTRACT

The “gift authorship” means that professors, investigators, department heads, etc. are included as authors in published scientific documents, even if their contribution is not worthy. The objective of our study was to know the opinion of the researchers in the Public Health Department of the University of Guadalajara about “gift authorship”. We carried an opinion poll that explored the views of the investigators and the main problems related to authoring that they had faced. Our results indicate that a considerable percentage of the researchers is unaware of the criteria to attribute authorship, and give merit to participants that the International Committee of Editors of Medical Magazines does not consider as such. We concluded that “gift authorship” is frequent among the subjects of this study. Also, that it can be reduced if, along with the implementation of strategies for its diminishment by the scientific magazines, strategies that allow the investigators to know the criteria that the ICEMM recommends for attribution of authorship are implemented too.

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