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From the Editors' Desks August 2012; 38(3) 57 European Science Editing Publications Committee From the Editors’ Desks Chief editor Armen Yuri Gasparyan The eleventh Annual General Meeting report that for the first time in several [email protected] was held in Tallinn: the President’s years we made a small surplus in 2011. Production editor full report is on the website. Several This was mainly due to rigorous cost Lynne Rowland [email protected] members of Council stepped down and control. Our membership, which is our Secretary we appreciate all their contributions main source of income, fell from 538 Mary Hodgson to EASE. So, my thanks to my two at the end of 2010 to 462 at the end of [email protected] Vice-Presidents, Alison Clayson, who 2011, but seems to have stabilized. If has done an excellent job coordinating you enjoy being a member of EASE, as European Science Editing Membership recruitment and retention, we hope you do, please spread the word Articles and correspondence and Reme Melero, who has organized to colleagues and help to make us an Armen Yuri Gasparyan many successful seminars and will even better organization. [email protected] continue to do so. I am also grateful It was a pleasure to announce the Book reviews to Petter Oscarsson for his work on award of an Honorary Life Fellowship Moira Johnson [email protected] the Handbook, Edward Towpik for to Elisabeth Heseltine for her services to EASE-Forum digest hosting courses in Warsaw and, of EASE and the scientific community in Elise Langdon-Neuner course, Mare-Anne Laane for facilitating teaching science writing (see p70). [email protected] such a fantastic Conference at Tallinn We also announced the launch of This site I like University of Technology. Regional Chapters of EASE to facilitate Silvia Maina [email protected] For the new Council, the Vice- interaction among editors within News notes Presidents, Ana Marušić and Eva countries or groups of countries. There John Hilton Baranyiová, were elected unopposed, is more information on the website [email protected] as were the five Ordinary Members of and anyone interested in establishing a Editor’s bookshelf Council: Paola DeCastro, Shirin Heidari, Regional chapter should contact Ana Anna Maria Rossi [email protected] Izet Masic, Chris Sterken and Sylwia Marušić or Eva Baranyiová. Production assistance Ufnalska. I was re-elected as President, Finally, EASE has now launched a Penny Hubbard which means that Arjan Polderman freely available online Author Toolkit [email protected] continues as Past-President. I am very and my thanks to Tom Babor and pleased that Rod Hunt will continue as Kerstin Stenius for driving this. The first Science Editors’ Handbook Treasurer (this is not an elected post) elements are on the website and more Pippa Smart and am looking forward to working will be added. [email protected] with this team for the next three years. Some good news was the Treasurer’s Joan Marsh Website Silvia Maina EASE Council 2012-2015 [email protected] President: Joan Marsh, UK; [email protected] EASE Council Vice-Presidents: Ana Marušić, Croatia; Eva Baranyiová, Czech Republic Joan Marsh (ex officio) Members: Paola DeCastro, Italy; Shirin Heidari, Switzerland; Izet Masic, Bosnia & Herzegovina; Chris Sterken, Belgium; Sylwia Ufnalska, Poland; Contributions should be sent to the Armen Yuri Gasparyan, UK (ex officio) Chief Editor or the appropriate section Past-President: Arjan K S Polderman, The Netherlands editor. See the Instructions to Authors on EASE’s website (www.ease.org.uk). Treasurer and Company Secretary: Roderick Hunt, UK The journal is published in February, Secretary: Mary Hodgson; West Trethellan, Trethellan Water, Lanner, Redruth, May, August and November, free to Cornwall, TR16 6BP; +44 (0)1209 860450; [email protected] paid-up members of EASE and available on annual subscription of £65 to libraries European Science Editing is indexed/listed in SCOPUS, SCImago Journal and Country and other non-members. Rank (SJR), SCIRUS, CAB International, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, NewJour, Genamics Disclaimer: The views expressed JournalSeek, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Electronic Journals Library (EZB), J-Gate, by contributors are their own. The ZETOC, The British Library, The Library of Congress, Cornell University Library, The John Association does not necessarily Rylands Library of the University of Manchester, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education endorse the claims of advertisers. and Research (GFMER), Academic Index,VINITI of RAS, GeoRef, Google, Index Copernicus Journals Master List, NLM Catalog, NLM LocatorPlus, EBSCO, ProQuest: LISA, HINARI, WorldCat, and RIN ISSN 0258-3127 Printed by Qwerty Ltd, The Markham To advertise in this journal, or on the EASE website, please contact EASE Centre, Theale RG7 4PE ©EASE 2012 Secretary, Mary Hodgson, [email protected] European Science Editing 58 August 2012; 38(3) August 2012; 38(3) 59 European Science Editing multi-authored articles of all types. In fact, recent evidence References Editorial from pharmacy and pharmacotherapy, a rapidly developing 1 EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to and influential field of science, indicates that the prevalence be Published in English. Available at http://www.ease.org.uk/sites/ Authorship and contributorship in scholarly journals of honorary authorship is 14.3%, reaching 29.4% with default/files/ease_guidelines-june2011c.pdf [accessed 2 June 2012]. articles authored by five or more individuals.8 2 Habibzadeh F, Marcovitch H. Authorship dispute among the League of Currently science editing is a discipline which covers each author should take responsibility for a specific part of Awarding undue credits to those who attain (honorary) Extraordinary Gentlemen. European Science Editing 2012;38(2):40–41. various issues in science writing, ethical editing, peer review, the work and, at the same time, should be familiar with authorship by merely holding a senior research post and 3 Rennie D, Yank V, Emanuel L. When authorship fails: a proposal publishing and scientometrics. Authorship in scholarly the whole paper.5 Collective responsibility may prevent obliging subordinates to put their names in potentially to make contributors accountable. JAMA 1997;278:579–585. doi: journals, and its abuses, is one of the key topics in this instances of research misconduct, such as plagiarism, early citable papers drives a circle of misconduct. Honorary 10.1001/jama.1997.03550070071041 discipline and shapes its core values. The basic principles of in the process of research and writing. authors benefit from the paper by artificially boosting their 4 Smith R. Authorship is dying: long live contributorship. BMJ authorship underlie the foundations of research, academic Despite the undisputed advantages of the alternative scientometric profile, obtaining new funds and perpetuating 1997;315(7110):696. promotion and advancement in science. It’s hardly possible model, some principal issues with authorship remain the vicious circle. 5 Wager E, Kleinert S on behalf of COPE Council. Cooperation between to create knowledge and scientific products without unresolved. First of all, the extent of minimal and Is there a way out of the current situation? Authorship research institutions and journals on research integrity cases: guidance following fair authorship criteria. substantive contributions warranting credits remains poorly issues may find a solution if all individuals and professional from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). March 2012. Though a universally acceptable definition of authorship distinguished. How do you credit those who do not meet bodies involved in scientific publishing stick to the rules Available at http://publicationethics.org/files/Research_institutions_ does not exist, there are two main components of any criteria of authors and substantive contributors but help of honest and transparent research reporting. Research guidelines_final.pdf [accessed 2 June 2012]. definition which have gained wide recognition – credit produce a good quality article? Originators of research institutions should accept policies encouraging fair 6 Smith R. Let’s simply scrap authorship and move to contributorship. and responsibility. Journal publications are the end result ideas give a start to the process of research. Laboratory authorship. Authors should avoid misconduct by BMJ 2012;344:e157. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e157 of creative work of individuals, or increasingly multi- technicians perform laboratory tests and supply a wealth of familiarising themselves with the accepted rules and 7 Bornmann L, Marx W. The h index as a research performance indicator. expert research teams, who are aiming to gain credit from essential raw data for original research papers, despite the by adhering to their institutions’ strategies. Editors and European Science Editing 2011;37(3):77–80. the scientific community and to contribute to knowledge lack of theoretical knowledge and capacity to interpret the reviewers are in a position to spot instances of inappropriate 8 Dotson B, Slaughter RL. Prevalence of articles with honorary and ghost creation. Traditional authorship models, largely based on data. Skilled statisticians merely analyse the raw data but authorship in journal submissions and suggest corrections. authors in three pharmacy journals. American Journal of Health- the criteria of the International Committee of Medical transform elementary facts into statistically significant
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