by Eugen Tarnow, Salon Magazine, June 14, 1999. "Credit where credit isn't due: An astonishing look at the odd politics of research-paper authorships"

by Eugen Tarnow. "A recent leader of science in the United States compared authorship assignment to sex and intimated that both procedures should be kept private. In the light of recent authorship investigations, which find substantial ethical violations, this attitude becomes more difficult to defend."

This is a combination of a Medscape editorial by George Lundberg on coauthorship and a paper on coauthorship in pathology by Eugen Tarnow et al. Coauthorship in pathology is compared with coauthorship in physics. The fields are found to be very similar, both contain a substantial amount of inappropriate authorship. An authorship guideline constructed from previous survey feedback was found to be preferable to society guidelines.