In Figure 1 we see the links between different countries, as expressed in joint paper authorships for all scientific fields combined [ 4].
This includes data fraud, poor experimental design, corner-cutting in research methods, inadequate replication of research, 'cherry picking' results, inappropriately slicing up data to create several papers, authorship issues, plagiarism, over-claiming the significance of work in grant proposals and papers, and carrying out poor quality peer review.
This paper's authorship includes all panellists, plus YM and AM who provided economic and modelling support.
The paper co-authorship network is a network expressing existence of co-authorship relation between authors of scientific papers (Van Eck and Waltman 2011).
The Council of Science Editors Authorship Task Forcee contains links to papers on authorship issues. .
Now, a study of nearly 1 million engineering paper co-authorships puts hard numbers on the problem in this male-dominated scientific field, and finds a paradoxical trend: Female engineers are publishing in slightly more prestigious journals on average than their male colleagues, but their work is getting less attention.
The success of a postdoc's appointment, which can only last 5 or 6 years, is evaluated by "the number of papers published, the authorship rank, the renewal of [the postdoc's annual] contracts, and other factions that fall entirely within the discretion of the [principal investigator (PI)].
One could hypothesize that papers with group authorship are potentially larger studies, of higher methodological rigor, and of possible greater general interest.
GMS and SW contributed equally to this paper and share senior authorship.
Costin Teodor Streba, Dan Ionu ț Gheonea, and Leti ția Adela Maria Streba share equal contribution in the study design and preparation and drafting of the paper and share first authorship.
