A Case Series in Publication Ethics: Disputes in Authorship (1)
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A Case Series in Publication Ethics: Disputes in Authorship (1)
What is this about?
A postgraduate medical student at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (Mashhad, Iran) complained to the vice chancellor of research that they had not been included in the authors list of an article, which used results from her thesis. The senior researcher involved in her thesis claimed that she has forgotten to include the student as an author.
For whom is this important?
What are the best practices?
For COPE in matters relating to the addition or omission of an author, a request should be sent to the publishing journal. The journal will ask for the permission of all authors with corrections made following their consent.
