Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada.
Am J Clin Pathol. 2012 Oct;138(4):495-7. doi: 10.1309/AJCPXSKDA3AQHLLI.
The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) is a high-impact multidisciplinary medical journal. We have observed instances in which a pathology diagnosis, documented with gross or microscopic images, forms an integral part of a CMAJ article, but a pathologist is neither an author nor acknowledged as a contributor. To examine the hypothesis that pathologist contributions are underrecognized and/or underdocumented, we reviewed all CMAJ articles over a 6-year period (September 2003-2009), and correlated the use of pathology images with pathologist authorship or contribution. For each article containing pathology images, department affiliations of authors were determined, and acknowledgments were assessed. Although only 1.7% of articles contained pathology images, 47% (26/55) of these articles did not include a pathologist as either an author or a contributor. We conclude that important intellectual contributions of pathologists are underrecognized and suggest that the scientific credibility of pathology data is in doubt when pathologists do not take on full responsibility of authorship or are not acknowledged as contributors.
《加拿大医学协会杂志》（CMAJ）是一份具有高影响力的多学科医学杂志。我们已经观察到一些情况，即病理学诊断，附有大体或显微镜图像，构成了 CMAJ 文章的一个组成部分，但病理学家既不是作者，也没有被承认为贡献者。为了检验病理学家的贡献被低估和/或记录不足的假设，我们审查了 6 年期间（2003 年 9 月至 2009 年）的所有 CMAJ 文章，并将病理学图像的使用与病理学家的作者身份或贡献相关联。对于每篇包含病理学图像的文章，确定了作者的部门归属，并评估了致谢。尽管只有 1.7%的文章包含病理学图像，但其中 47%（26/55）的文章没有将病理学家列为作者或贡献者。我们的结论是，病理学家的重要知识贡献被低估了，并表明当病理学家没有承担全部作者责任或没有被承认为贡献者时，病理学数据的科学可信度值得怀疑。
