Berhidi Anna, Csajbók Edit, Vasas Lívia
Semmelweis Egyetem, Központi Könyvtár, Budapest, Mikszáth Kálmán tér 5., 1088.
Orv Hetil. 2010 Jan 31;151(5):184-92. doi: 10.1556/OH.2010.28761.
The present study intends to draw attention to the importance of authorship ethics. It is necessary since papers these days that have many authors--even 10-12 authors--become increasingly general. In the first part of this study the change of author-number in four journals--JAMA, Nature, Lancet and Science--was analyzed based on the main document types--article, editorial material, letter and review--from 1975 until 2009. These changes were similar in all journals. The number of authors for 'articles' has changed the most significantly, a fourfold increase during 34 years. The possible correlation between the expected citations and the change of author-number could not be demonstrated based on this analysis. The increase in the number of authors may include more abuses. This study emphasizes the guideline of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors regarding authorship ethics which could help to reduce the number of misconduct cases. The analysis of some foreign and Hungarian biomedical journals reveals that the foreign periodicals try to follow the main guidelines, but only 4 Hungarian journals, of the analyzed 16, point out the matter of the authorship ethics. The practical solution for this problem is still in the making.
本研究旨在提请人们关注作者署名伦理的重要性。这很有必要，因为如今有多位作者（甚至10至12位作者）的论文越来越普遍。在本研究的第一部分，基于主要文献类型（文章、社论材料、信函和综述），分析了1975年至2009年期间四种期刊（《美国医学会杂志》《自然》《柳叶刀》和《科学》）作者数量的变化。所有期刊的这些变化都相似。“文章”的作者数量变化最为显著，34年间增加了四倍。基于此分析，无法证明预期引用次数与作者数量变化之间存在关联。作者数量的增加可能包含更多不当行为。本研究强调了医学期刊编辑国际委员会关于作者署名伦理的指导原则，这有助于减少不当行为案例的数量。对一些国外和匈牙利生物医学期刊的分析表明，国外期刊试图遵循主要指导原则，但在分析的16种匈牙利期刊中，只有4种指出了作者署名伦理问题。该问题的实际解决方案仍在制定中。
