AUTHOR=Eggert Lucas D.

TITLE=Best Practices for Allocating Appropriate Credit and Responsibility to Authors of Multi-Authored Articles

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=volume 2 - 2011

YEAR=2011

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00196

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00196

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Today’s research process is characterized by multidisciplinary research projects. This situation inevitably leads to the question on how to decide on who will be an author of a multi-authored publication. This question becomes even more important as scientists must stand up for their own interest because of the ever-increasing importance of individual scientists’ publication records. At worst, discussions about authorship allocation might lead to a serious conflict among coworkers that might even endanger the successful completion of a whole research project. Surprisingly, ethical standards on authorship are apparently not discussed in the field of Cognitive Science. In this short review I therefore characterize the modern challenges to a fair system for allocating authorship and review existing standards to compile a list of best practice principles and recommendations for determining authors in multi-authored publications.