University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA.
Covance Laboratories Inc, Chantilly, VA, USA.
Vet Pathol. 2021 Jul;58(4):650-654. doi: 10.1177/03009858211011943. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
Veterinary pathologists are key contributors to multidisciplinary biomedical research. However, they are occasionally excluded from authorship in published articles despite their substantial intellectual and data contributions. To better understand the potential origins and implications of this practice, we identified and analyzed 29 scientific publications where the contributing pathologist was excluded as an author. The amount of pathologist-generated data contributions were similar to the calculated average contributions for authors, suggesting that the amount of data contributed by the pathologist was not a valid factor for their exclusion from authorship. We then studied publications with pathologist-generated contributions to compare the effects of inclusion or exclusion of the pathologist as an author. Exclusion of the pathologist from authorship was associated with significantly lower markers of rigor and reproducibility compared to articles in which the pathologist was included as author. Although this study did not find justification for the exclusion of pathologists from authorship, potential consequences of their exclusion on data quality were readily detectable.
兽医病理学家是多学科生物医学研究的重要贡献者。然而，尽管他们在知识和数据方面做出了实质性的贡献，但他们偶尔会被排除在已发表文章的作者之外。为了更好地理解这种做法的潜在原因和影响，我们确定并分析了 29 篇科学出版物，其中贡献的病理学家被排除在作者之外。病理学家生成的数据量与为作者计算的平均贡献量相似，这表明病理学家贡献的数据量并不是将其排除在作者之外的有效因素。然后，我们研究了有病理学家生成贡献的出版物，以比较将病理学家作为作者纳入或排除的影响。与将病理学家作为作者纳入的文章相比，将病理学家排除在作者之外与严谨性和可重复性的显著降低标志物相关。尽管这项研究没有为将病理学家排除在作者之外提供理由，但他们被排除在外对数据质量的潜在影响是显而易见的。
