Hudson Volcano Threatens to Erupt

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BR. MED. J. Ghost and honorary authorship in high-impact biomedical a prominent social-psychology Inappropriate attribution of journals has declined only slightly since a 1996 survey*. researcher, Diederik Stapel,

SOURCE: authorship plagues research who faked data in at least papers, according to a study 30 published studies. The Ghost 1996 published on 25 October authorship report was released on (J. S. Wislar et al. Br. Med. J. 2008 31 October by a committee 343, d6128; 2011). A survey from Tilburg University in the of 6 high-impact biomedical Honorary Netherlands, together with authorship journals found that 21% of committees at the universities articles published in 2008 had Honorary of Groningen and Amsterdam. either honorary authors (who or ghost In September, Tilburg authorship, were named as authors but or both suspended Stapel on suspicion hadn’t contributed enough of research misconduct. See 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 to take responsibility for the Prevalence of articles with inappropriate authorship (%) page 15 for more. work) or ghost authors (who *Survey of authors of 896 articles in Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American had contributed to the work but Medical Association, Lancet, Nature Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS Medicine NATURE.COM weren’t named). For daily news updates see: www.nature.com/news