Guest / gift / ghost authorship

Articles that support this problem:

Increasing number of authors in Cochrane reviews

2020 : Journal of evidence‐based medicine

More than one-third of Cochrane reviews had gift authors, whereas ghost authorship was rare

2020 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Group authorships in Cochrane had low compliance with Cochrane recommendations

2020 : Journal of evidence-based medicine

Prevalence of honorary and ghost authorship in Cochrane reviews

2002 : Jama