This has forced a re-evaluation of how far it is fair to attribute authorship of the narrative portion of Sea of Cortez to Steinbeck, and has caused critics to view the removal of Ricketts' name from the cover as reflecting badly on Steinbeck.
While collaborative partnership initiatives have shown promise and attracted growing interest, there has been little scholarly debate regarding the fair distribution of authorship credit within these partnerships.
Fair distribution of authorship has also been a concern in global health research (GHR) partnerships [ 11, 12], where scholars from LMICs collaborate with researchers from high-income countries (HICs).
Ethical research requires the fair and accurate description of authorship on research results.
According to Washington Monthly, National Journal discussed the matter with Ayers at a recent book fair: When [Ayers] finished speaking, we put the authorship question [on "Dreams from My Father"] right to him.
Richard Prince, an established artist who plays with authorship and appropriation, made waves at the Frieze Art Fair a couple of weeks ago with his Instagram paintings.
To avoid inappropriate authorship, all those involved, research institutions, authors, editors and publishers, must understand the importance of fair crediting and take measures to ensure adherence to current guidelines and requirements [ 2, 23].
He claimed authorship of such signs as 'Yield Right of Way', 'Keep Right Except to Pass', 'World's Fair Parking', and the Big 'NO' concept at city parks.
With respect to topic 3, for both raters, it was relatively difficult to identify the authorship of the questions (F-score is between 0.40 and 0.44) and the agreement between the raters was fair (0.263).
We believe that obligatory inclusion of authorship issues in research education, as well as planning of authorship during the development of research protocols would enable fair recognition of all contributions to the research effort.
