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The norms of authorship credit: challenging the definition of authorship in the European code of conduct for research integrity

Hosseini, Mohammad ORCID: 0000-0002-2385-985X and Lewis, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0001-8342-1051 (2020) The norms of authorship credit: challenging the definition of authorship in the European code of conduct for research integrity. Accountability in Research, 27 (2). pp. 80-98. ISSN 0898-9621

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Abstract

The practice of assigning authorship for a scientific publication tends to raise two normative questions: 1) ‘who should be credited as an author?’; 2) ‘who should not be credited as an author but should still be acknowledged?’. With the publication of the revised version of The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (ECCRI), standard answers to these questions have been called into question. This article examines the ways in which the ECCRI approaches these two questions and compares these approaches to standard definitions of ‘authorship’ and ‘acknowledgment’ in guidelines issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). In light of two scenarios and the problems posed by these kinds of ‘real-world’ examples, we recommend specific revisions to the content of the ECCRI in order not only to provide a more detailed account of the tasks deserving of acknowledgment, but to improve the Code’s current definition of authorship.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Additional Information:An early draft of this article was presented in September 2018 during the PUBMET conference held in Zadar University.
Uncontrolled Keywords:Authorship; Acknowledgment; Credit; Responsibility; Accountability
Subjects:Humanities > Philosophy
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Theology, Philosophy, & Music
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1721288
Copyright Information:© 2020 Taylor & Francis
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:EnTIRE Consortium (Mapping Normative Frameworks for EThics and Integrity of Research), which is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 741782
ID Code:25198
Deposited On:23 Nov 2020 16:05 by Mohammad Hosseini . Last Modified 04 Nov 2021 11:39

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