"The person in power told me to"-European PhD students' perspectives on guest authorship and good authorship practice.

ABSTRACT: Questionable authorship practices in scientific publishing are detrimental to research quality and management. The existing literature dealing with the prevalence, and perceptions, of such practices has focused on the medical sciences, and on experienced researchers. In contrast, this study investigated how younger researchers (PhD students) from across the faculties view fair authorship attribution, their experience with granting guest authorships to more powerful researchers and their reasons for doing so. Data for the study were collected in a survey of European PhD students. The final dataset included 1,336 participants from five European countries (Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, and Switzerland) representing all major disciplines. Approximately three in ten reported that they ha

SUBMITTER: Goddiksen MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9836317 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature