Honorary authorship in radiologic research articles: do geographic factors influence the frequency? | Semantic Scholar (2024)

Overall authorship for 49 radiology journals across 68 years has increased markedly with no demonstrated impact from ICMJE guidelines.

HA is present throughout all journals surveyed despite endorsem*nt of the IC MJE guidelines by these same journals, suggesting the necessity for modifications to the authorship system or a contemporary revision to the ICMJE guidelines.

Despite IC MJE guidelines to reduce HA, the prevalence may still exist to a higher level than preferable, and the authors plead for more transparent authorship systems in which journal editors and senior department members take more responsibility into enforcement of the ICMJE guidelines.

The outcomes of the planned systematic review will give insights in the magnitude of honorary authorship in health sciences and could direct new research studies to develop and implement strategies to address this problem.

An Internet-based survey among first authors publishing in Indian biomedical journals from 2012 to 2013 to study the frequency and factors associated with honorary authorship and hopes to increase awareness of the ICMJE authorship guidelines and the general issue of honorary authorships among researchers in India and elsewhere.

A paradigm shift from the current system is needed, where enforcement of ethical authorship practices is shifted away from journal editors, and instruction on the topic should be provided to medical trainees throughout medical school and continued during further training.

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The rate of perceived honorary authorship was substantially more frequent among respondents of lower academic rank and in those working in an environment in which their section or department head was automatically listed as an author.

The rate of honorary authors was higher among authors who worked in an environment where senior members were routinely added to all manuscripts submitted for publication, authors who perceived that a coauthor listed had only reviewed the manuscript, and authors who reported that someone suggested they should include an honorary author.

Ordinal scales for reporting authors’ contributions to manuscripts were more sensitive than tick boxes for assessing the appropriateness of authorship.

The following IS3R members have personally underlined their support for the ICMJE criteria for authorship and are determined to ensure that colleagues in their department/institution/working group adhere to them fully.

The 68% fulfillment of criteria for authorship was closely related to the large number of researchers contributing to one category or to categories belonging to the same ICMJE criterion.

Psychological factors such as autobiographical memory may confound contribution disclosures as an evaluation tool for authorship on scientific articles and affect responsible authorship and publication practices.

Diagnostic radiology journals are publishing an increasing number of articles with many authors, and this increase in authors has been far more rapid than the increase in articles, and it is coauthorship that has increased most rapidly.

Manuscripts were more likely to include an undeserved coauthor when the first author was a nontenured staff member than when he or she was tenured faculty and the most commonly cited reason that otherwise honest individuals accept undeserved authorship was academic promotion.

During 32 years of publishing, I've experienced two authorship disputes that have demonstrated that there is a disturbing and pervasive lack of understanding of what is going on in the world of literature.