Authorship Issues

Up to Professional Ethics


An Offending Survey
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"
The Authorship List In Science: Junior Physicists' Perceptions of Who Appears and Why
by Eugen Tarnow, Science and Engineering Ethics, January 1999. "Results indicate a low awareness of the professional society s ethical statement and that little communication takes place between postdocs and supervisors about authorship criteria. A substantial amount of authorship credit given to supervisors and other workers is perceived by the postdocs to violate the professional societys ethical statement."
Authorship Needs More Scrutiny
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."
Coauthorship literature
This site is a compilation of coauthorship research by various authors. Please deposit your papers according to the instructions.
Coauthorship in Pathology
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.