Fotion N, Conrad C C
Ann Intern Med. 1984 Apr;100(4):592-4. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-100-4-592.
Coauthorship of articles and case reports in medical journals is causing serious academic problems. Many persons who are listed as authors do not contribute as authors but rather as clinical investigators, statisticians, or program directors. In effect, a dishonest practice has developed that allows contributors to medical research to receive the honorific title of author when this title is not deserved. To help stop this practice, we urge a shift from the concept of authorship to a more general concept of receiving credit. Persons who contribute to articles as authors should be so credited, but those who contribute as clinical investigators, for example, should receive credit as clinical investigators, not authors. Instead, clinical investigators should receive credit by having their names listed alongside the authors' and by being permitted to list their nonauthorial contributions in their curricula vitae.
医学期刊中文章和病例报告的共同作者身份引发了严重的学术问题。许多被列为作者的人并非以作者身份做出贡献，而是以临床研究者、统计学家或项目主管的身份。实际上，一种不诚实的做法已经形成，即让医学研究的贡献者在不应获得作者头衔时却获得这一荣誉头衔。为帮助制止这种做法，我们敦促从作者身份的概念转向更宽泛的获得认可的概念。以作者身份为文章做出贡献的人应得到相应认可，但那些以临床研究者等身份做出贡献的人，应作为临床研究者而非作者获得认可。相反，临床研究者应通过将其名字列在作者旁边，并被允许在简历中列出其非作者身份的贡献来获得认可。
