有争议的作者

去年，四名署名作者发表了一篇论文。相关期刊随后收到了另一个人的来信，声称他们也应该被记入作者名单。那个人(M博士)是在一次会议上发表的一篇标题类似的摘要的第二作者，发表论文的作者也被命名为作者。该杂志写信给该论文的第一作者(L博士)，她的回答是:“这份摘要是我们研究小组提交的三份摘要之一，它描述了两个独立的淋病流行病学研究的早期发现。所有的摘要都是L博士在会议前几个月写的。M博士没有参与发表的研究，但作为研究小组的一员，并可能在以后的阶段做出贡献。事后看来，M博士的名字应该只出现在她所参与的研究的摘要中。根据这篇论文的第一作者，M博士参与了这项研究，与病人进行了面谈，并输入了这些面谈的数据。L博士在她的信中说:“M博士没有参与在她的合同开始之前就已经发表的研究的构想或设计。她没有参与数据收集、数据录入或编辑、统计分析、结果解释、稿件起草或修改等工作。” Dr L then goes on to describe the contribution of the other three named authors of the paper, all of whom seem to have contributed to conception, data collection and revising of the manuscript. The point of issue here seems to be that Dr M was part of the research group, although not directly involved in the study which was published in the journal, despite the fact that her name was included on the abstract when it was presented at the conference. According to Dr L, the project on which Dr M worked directly has not yet been written up. According to Dr M, as second author on the abstract, she was not told that her name would be omitted from the list of authors when the paper was submitted for publication.