====== Authorship ======

Academic authorship of [[journal]] [[article]]s, [[book]]s, and other original works is a means by which academics communicate the results of their scholarly work, establish priority for their discoveries, and build their [[reputation]] among their peers.

===== Implications =====

Authorship confers [[credit]] and has important academic, social, and financial [[implication]]s. Authorship also implies [[responsibility]] and [[accountability]] for published work. The following recommendations are intended to ensure that [[contributor]]s who have made substantive intellectual contributions to a paper are given credit as authors, but also that [[contributor]]s credited as authors understand their role in taking responsibility and being accountable for what is published.

Because authorship does not communicate what [[contribution]]s qualified an individual to be an [[author]], some journals now request and publish information about the [[contribution]]s of each person named as having participated in a submitted [[study]], at least for [[original research]]. [[Editor]]s are strongly encouraged to develop and implement a [[contributorship]] policy, as well as a policy that identifies who is responsible for the integrity of the work as a whole. Such policies remove much of the ambiguity surrounding contributions but leave unresolved the question of the quantity and quality of contribution that qualify an individual for authorship. The [[ICMJE]] has thus developed criteria for authorship that can be used by all journals, including those that distinguish authors from other contributors.

http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf

Who should merit co-authorship? An analysis of honorary authorships in leading spine dedicated journals
((Gadjradj PS, Peul WC, Jalimsing M, Sharma JRJA, Verhemel A, Harhangi BS. Who
should merit co-authorship? An analysis of honorary authorships in leading spine 
dedicated journals. Spine J. 2019 Aug 21. pii: S1529-9430(19)30937-4. doi:
10.1016/j.spinee.2019.08.008. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31445166.
)).

===== Female authorship =====

[[Female authorship]]