“Authorship! Authorship!: Guests, Ghosts, Grafters, and the Two-Sided Coin” by Drummond Rennie and Annette Flanagin
Anticipating the creation of CRediT, Rennie and Flanagin argue authorship should confer both credit and accountability. How? Exclude honorary authors, disclose ghostwriters, and clearly distinguish accountable authors from acknowledged contributors.
[JAMA 1994;271(6):469-471]