Cheah Phaik Yeong, Parker Michael
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Commun Med (Lond). 2025 Apr 1;5(1):99. doi: 10.1038/s43856-025-00815-9.
In this Perspective article, we call for a fairer approach to authorship practice in collaborative biomedical research to promote equity and inclusiveness. Current practice does not adequately recognise all contributors involved in different stages of the work and may exacerbate preexisting inequalities. Here, we discuss some key features of contemporary collaborative research practice that complicate authorship decisions. These include the project size, complexity of multidisciplinary team involvement and researchers having varying degrees of expertise and experience. We conclude by making some suggestions to address these concerns.
在这篇观点文章中，我们呼吁在合作性生物医学研究中采用更公平的作者身份认定方式，以促进公平和包容性。当前的做法未能充分认可参与研究工作不同阶段的所有贡献者，可能会加剧现有的不平等现象。在此，我们讨论当代合作研究实践中一些使作者身份认定决策复杂化的关键特征。这些特征包括项目规模、多学科团队参与的复杂性以及研究人员具有不同程度的专业知识和经验。我们最后提出一些建议来解决这些问题。
