Commentary on 'honorary authorship epidemic in scholarly publications? How the current use of citation-based evaluative metrics make (pseudo) honorary authors from honest contributors of every multiauthor article.'

摘要

Kovacs calls for collaborating teams to indicate the proportional credit that each author of a multi-authored paper deserves. This approach addresses the problem of giving each of the co-authors full (and therefore inflated) credit for the article when their publication records are assessed. This problem is, however, a weakness in the evaluation system, not in the publication system, and it will not be solved by the proposed strategy.