Sixty seconds on . . . movie credits

What’s this got to do with medicine?This is about academia and the questionable practices that can sometimes occur when listing authors on research papers.I’m not following thisThe League of European Research Universities (Leru) has suggested a radical plan to move away from the idea of “authorship” altogether,1 instead listing researchers as “contributors” in “movie-style credits” at the end of a published paper.Ah. What’s behind this plot twist?Leru contends that the notion of an “author” has become obsolete in some research fields, where numerous authors are listed on published scholarly papers.Credit where credit’s dueThat’s the idea. Inge Lerouge, research integrity and ethics coordinator at the Research Coordination Office of KU Leuven in Belgium and coauthor of the paper, says recent studies have shown that “bad authorship practices are still common and widespread.”What kinds of practices?Lerouge notes that, in one recent international survey, 70% of respondents said that they’d been involved in…
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