| Ref ID | 701 |
| First Author | G. Mowatt |
| Journal | JAMA |
| Year Of Publishing | 2002 |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12038907/ |
| Keywords |
• Author • Cochrane • Allegiance |
| Problem(s) |
• Weaknesses identified in some Cochrane reviews • Guest / gift / ghost authorship |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Survey/questionnaire of authors opinions/practices |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Aim | To assess the prevalence of honorary authorship (naming as an author, an individual who does not meet authorship criteria) and ghost authorship (failure to name an individual who has made substantial contributions that merited authorship or an unnamed individual who participated in writing the article) in Cochrane reviews using a web-based questionnaire. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | 39% of the 362 included Cochrane reviews had evidence of honorary authors (named as authors but not meeting all 3 ICMJE criteria). 9% had evidence of ghost authors (most commonly a member of the Cochrane editorial team) and 2% had evidence of both honorary and ghost authors. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 362 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 577 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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