University of Colorado Denver

Course objectives

1. Describe the guidelines for who should be listed as an author
2. Define plagiarism
3. Identify resources

Course resources

• Authorship Presentation
• Guidelines for the responsible conduct of research: Ethics and the publication process; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2009
• What is the standard order for authorship?
• Case studies for small group discussion: Linda McCabe’s and University of Minnesota examples

Articles

•  “Who is accountable? How the responsibilities of co-authors for a scientific paper’s integrity could be made more explicit”, Editorial, Nature 450, 1 (1 November 2007)
• “Authorship criteria and disclosure of contributions: comparison of 3 general medical journals with different author contribution forms”, Tamara Bates, Ante Anic, Matko Marusic, Ana Marusic, JAMA 2004; 292(1):86-88
• “Criteria for authorship at peer-reviewed journals – examples from five journals” , Addeane Caelleigh, Tomkin-McCraw Library for the Health Sciences Virginia Commonwealth University, July 22, 2008.
• JAMA Authorship Responsibility Form 2012
• “Citations: The rules they didn’t teach you”, Lipids, (2011) 46: 307-309
• 10 simple rules of collaboration
• Office of Research Integrity - Retractions
• Authorship: Why not just toss a coin
• Plagiarism in Grant Proposals - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Responsible Authorship - case study

Other Resources

• Research Ethics and Authorship Dispute Committee

Questions that focus content

1. When should you be listed as an author?
2. Who should be named and in what order?
3. Who is responsible for ensuring that there is no plagiarism
4. What is self-plagiarism