Editorial: Gift Authorship: An Unethical Practice in Medical Writing

Abstract

“I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance” (dGraham Greene). The Gift authorship is defined as “co-authorship awarded to a person who has not contributed
1 significantly to the study.” According to International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME), authorship criteria guidelines, an “author” is generally considered to be someone who has made a substantive intellectual contributions to a published study, including the conceptualization, acquisition, analysis of data, drafting of the manuscript and 2 approval of the manuscript to be published. But these guidelines are not accepted or followed by all journals universally. Instead of ICJME author ship............................................
criteria, some of the journals has started using
contributor lists, showing contribution or role of
each person in place of or in addition to traditional
3 lists of authors