医学论文作者单位署名不当现象的调查分析及伦理规范探讨

摘要

[目的]调查医学论文作者单位署名不当现象的几种典型方式,分析这些现象背后的原因,提出相应的建议和措施,并探讨其伦理规范.[方法]对《第三军医大学学报》2016年10月26日-2016年12月31日545篇来稿及2015年同期444篇来稿中未标明作者和单位署名的论文进行调查,按照作者投稿时注册的信息打电话核实情况,并采用卡方检验对数据进行统计学分析.对《第三军医大学学报》收到的单位署名和论文内容不相关,病例资料来源与第一署名单位不一致的2篇论文进行案例调查,指出各自存在的伦理问题.[结果]2016年所调查时间段共有53篇(9.7％)在初投稿中无作者和单位署名,明显高于2015年所调查时间段[7篇(1.6％)],且差异有统计学意义(x2=28.51,P＜0.01).对2016年53篇未署名论文核实其登记的作者信息时,发现可能存在第三方代写、中介机构代投情况.对案例1作者单位署名和论文内容不相关,案例2病例资料来源与第一署名单位不一致的情况进行调查,经核实均属于作者隶属的机构单位与完成课题的机构单位不一致的单位署名不当.[结论]编辑要提高警惕并核实单位署名不当的论文,采取适当对策,制定有针对性的伦理规范以约束作者署名行为.%[Purposes] This paper aims to investigate several typical improper signature insttutions in medical papers,analyze the reasons behind the phenomenon,put forward some suggestions and measures,and explore relevant ethics guidelines.[Methods]The papers which did not indicate the signature of authors and institutions from a total of 545 papers (from Oct.26,2016 to Dec.31,2016) that submitted to our journal and from a total of 444 papers during the same period in 2015 were investigated.The situations according to the registration information were checked.Chi-square test was used to analyze the data.Two papers that submitted to our journal were investigated as case study.The first case:the signature institutions was not relevant with the content of the paper;the second case:the source of clinical data was inconsistent with the first signature institution.Then the ethical problems were pointed out.[Findings] There were 53 (9.7％) papers which did not indicate the signature of authors and institutions in 2016 survey period,which was significantly higher than that in 2015 survey period [7(1.6％),Chi-square =28.51,P＜0.01].After checking the registration information of 53 papers,we could infer from the survey results that the contributors may come from the third party agency to ghostwrite.After checking 2 cases,we found that the institutions which the authors belonged to were inconsistent with the organizations which complete the project.[Conclusions] The editors should strengthen the vigilance,check the papers with improper signature institutions,take appropriate countermeasures,and make specific ethics guidelines to constrain the behavior of authors.