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Lewis H, Biesecker B, Lee SSJ, Anderson K, Joseph G, Jenkins CL, Bulkley JE, Leo MC, Goddard KAB, Wilfond BS. Promoting equity, inclusion, and efficiency: A team science approach to the development of authorship guidelines for a multi-disciplinary research team. J Clin Transl Sci 2023; 7:e265. [PMID: 38229898 PMCID: PMC10790100 DOI: 10.1017/cts.2023.685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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Large research teams and consortia present challenges for authorship. The number of disciplines involved in the research can further complicate approaches to manuscript development and leadership. The CHARM team, representing a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional genomics implementation study, participated in facilitated discussions inspired by team science methodologies. The discussions were centered on team members' past experiences with authorship and perspectives on authorship in a large research team context. Team members identified challenges and opportunities that were used to create guidelines and administrative tools to support manuscript development. The guidelines were organized by the three values of equity, inclusion, and efficiency and included eight principles. A visual dashboard was created to allow all team members to see who was leading or involved in each paper. Additional tools to promote equity, inclusion, and efficiency included providing standardized project management for each manuscript and making "concept sheets" for each manuscript accessible to all team members. The process used in CHARM can be used by other large research teams and consortia to equitably distribute lead authorship opportunities, foster coauthor inclusion, and efficiently work with large authorship groups.
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- Hannah Lewis
- Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle
Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA,
USA
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- Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, Columbia
University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of
California, San Francisco, CA,
USA
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- Department of Translational and Applied Genomics, Kaiser
Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland,
OR, USA
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- Department of Translational and Applied Genomics, Kaiser
Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland,
OR, USA
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- Department of Translational and Applied Genomics, Kaiser
Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland,
OR, USA
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- Department of Translational and Applied Genomics, Kaiser
Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland,
OR, USA
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National
Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville,
MD, USA
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- Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle
Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA,
USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Bioethics and Palliative Care,
University of Washington, Seattle,
WA, USA
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Hoffman AJ, Spoelstra S, Wierenga K, Buckwalter KC. Midwest Nursing Research Society News. West J Nurs Res 2018; 40:1919-1926. [PMID: 30394864 DOI: 10.1177/0193945918807979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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McCann TV, Polacsek M. Addressing the vexed issue of authorship and author order: A discussion paper. J Adv Nurs 2018; 74:2064-2074. [PMID: 29791017 DOI: 10.1111/jan.13720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Revised: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS To review and discuss authorship and author order in the context of nursing and midwifery publications and to present a set of principles to guide and justify author order. BACKGROUND Variation in author order trends is evident across different authors, disciplines and countries. Confusion and conflict between authors give rise to important issues concerning ethics and collaboration and may delay publication. Lack of transparency in authorship practices also impedes judgements when individual contributions are used in support of employment, promotion, tenure and/or research funding applications. DESIGN Discussion paper. DATA SOURCES A literature search of BioMed Central, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), MEDLINE with Full Text and PubMed for original peer-reviewed papers published in English between 2007 - 2017, in the disciplines of nursing and midwifery. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING Much is written about authorship practices across disciplines and countries. Despite existing authorship guidelines, author order remains an area of confusion and contention. Disputes about authorship and author order have the potential to cause distrust and breakdowns in research relationships, thereby disrupting nursing and midwifery scholarship and research. The main issues concern honorary and ghost authorship, authorship versus acknowledgement, confusion about collaboration, author order, research students as co-authors, equal author credit and the need for explicit guidelines. CONCLUSION Good communication and mutual respect are crucial to the authorship process. However, clear instructions are needed to guide decisions on authorship and author order. It is recommended that the "first-last-author-emphasis" be adopted uniformly internationally across nursing and midwifery research.
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- Terence V McCann
- Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute of Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute of Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Conn VS, Anderson CM, Killion C, Bowers BJ, Wyman JF, Herrick LM, Zerwic JJ, Smith CE, Cohen MZ, Benefield LE, Topp R, Fahrenwald NL, Titler MG, Larson JL, Varty MM, Jefferson UT. Launching Successful Beginnings for Early Career Faculty Researchers. West J Nurs Res 2017; 40:153-174. [PMID: 28831849 DOI: 10.1177/0193945917725999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Junior faculty follow a research path replete with challenges as they strive to create knowledge in their area of interest while balancing new responsibilities. Unlike graduate school, where students focus inward on personal development, junior faculty must add responsibilities in ways that hold them accountable as members of a university. This special article deals with three themes of interest to new junior faulty launching research programs: personal development, collaboration and team development within university settings, and funding advice. Strategies in these areas provide guidance on navigating early careers and finding success in the academic setting.
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- 8 University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA
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Johal J, Loukas M, Oskouian RJ, Tubbs RS. "Political co-authorships" in medical science journals. Clin Anat 2017; 30:831-834. [PMID: 28589537 DOI: 10.1002/ca.22932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The issue of co-author relationships on medical sciences journal publications has become more pronounced as advances in technology have enabled collaboration across countries and institutions to occur much more efficiently. These relationships often have underlying political motivations and outcomes, including career advancement, attempting to increase prestige of a project, and maintaining research grants. Some authors may be listed as senior or honorary authors despite offering little or no contribution to the original research project. This may be done in an effort to enhance the gravitas of a research project, and attain publication in a highly regarded medical journal. The current review covers the topic of political co-authorship and germane literature and lists strategies to combat this phenomenon. Such co-authorship practices corrupt the integrity of the research process as they attempt to bypass the safeguard that medical journals and institutions have put in place to prevent fraud and falsification. A number of strategies have been proposed to combat the practice of co-authorship, but it may ultimately be an unavoidable feature of contemporary medical research publishing that is difficult to police. Clin. Anat. 30:831-834, 2017. © 2017Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Jaspreet Johal
- Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, St. George's, Grenada, West Indies
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- Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, St. George's, Grenada, West Indies
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- Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, St. George's, Grenada, West Indies.,Seattle Science Foundation, Seattle, Washington
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Conn VS, Jefferson U, Cohen MZ, Anderson CM, Killion CM, Fahrenwald NL, Benefield LE, Titler M, Topp R, Smith CE, Loya J. Strategies to Build Authorship Competence Among PhD Students. West J Nurs Res 2016; 39:329-355. [DOI: 10.1177/0193945916651588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Publication in refereed journals is an important responsibility of PhD-prepared nurses. Specialized writing skills are crucial for effective professional publication. The capacity to develop and publish articles is best learned during doctoral education. This Western Journal of Nursing Research Editorial Board Special Article addresses multi-dimensional strategies to develop authorship competence among doctoral students. The article outlines structured PhD program experiences to provide the context for students to develop authorship capacity. The authors identify multi-faceted faculty endeavors and student activities that are essential to foster authorship competence. Students who embrace opportunities to acquire authorship qualifications will be well prepared for their post-graduation role as stewards of the nursing discipline.
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- University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Lotrecchiano GR, Mallinson TR, Leblanc-Beaudoin T, Schwartz LS, Lazar D, Falk-Krzesinski HJ. Individual motivation and threat indicators of collaboration readiness in scientific knowledge producing teams: a scoping review and domain analysis. Heliyon 2016; 2:S2405-8440(16)30018-4. [PMID: 27398411 PMCID: PMC4936491 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2016.e00105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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This paper identifies a gap in the team science literature that considers intrapersonal indicators of collaboration as motivations and threats to participating in collaborative knowledge producing teams (KPTs). Through a scoping review process, over 150 resources were consulted to organize 6 domains of motivation and threat to collaboration in KPTs: Resource Acquisition, Advancing Science, Building Relationships, Knowledge Transfer, Recognition and Reward, and Maintenance of Beliefs. Findings show how domains vary in their presentation of depth and diversity of motivation and threat indicators as well as their relationship with each other within and across domains. The findings of 51 indicators resulting from the review provide a psychosocial framework for which to establish a hierarchy of collaborative reasoning for individual engagement in KPTs thus allowing for further research into the mechanism of collaborative engagement. The indicators serve as a preliminary step in establishing a protocol for testing of the psychometric properties of intrapersonal measures of collaboration readiness.
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- Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano
- Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
- Office of Clinical Practice Innovation, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
- Corresponding author.
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- Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Office of Clinical Practice Innovation, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Elsevier, Global Academic Relations, New York, NY, USA
- School of Professional Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Conn VS, Zerwic J, Jefferson U, Anderson CM, Killion CM, Smith CE, Cohen MZ, Fahrenwald NL, Herrick L, Topp R, Benefield LE, Loya J. Normalizing Rejection. West J Nurs Res 2015; 38:137-54. [PMID: 26041785 DOI: 10.1177/0193945915589538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Getting turned down for grant funding or having a manuscript rejected is an uncomfortable but not unusual occurrence during the course of a nurse researcher's professional life. Rejection can evoke an emotional response akin to the grieving process that can slow or even undermine productivity. Only by "normalizing" rejection, that is, by accepting it as an integral part of the scientific process, can researchers more quickly overcome negative emotions and instead use rejection to refine and advance their scientific programs. This article provides practical advice for coming to emotional terms with rejection and delineates methods for working constructively to address reviewer comments.
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- University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA
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