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Branney PE, Brooks J, Kilby L, Newman K, Norris E, Pownall M, Talbot CV, Treharne GJ, Whitaker CM. Three steps to open science for qualitative research in psychology. SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY COMPASS 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Peter E. Branney
- Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences Department of Psychology School of Social Sciences University of Bradford Bradford UK
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- Manchester Centre for Health Psychology Division of Psychology and Mental Health University of Manchester Manchester UK
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- Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield UK
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- Department of Psychology Nottingham Trent University Nottingham UK
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- Division of Global Health Department of Health Sciences Brunel University London London UK
- Centre for Behaviour Change University College London London UK
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- Te Tari Whakamātau Hinekaro/Department of Psychology Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo/The University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand (Aotearoa)
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- Faculty of Social and Health Sciences School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies Leeds Trinity University Leeds UK
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Goddiksen MP, Johansen MW, Armond AC, Clavien C, Hogan L, Kovács N, Merit MT, Olsson IAS, Quinn U, Santos JB, Santos R, Schöpfer C, Varga O, Wall PJ, Sandøe P, Lund TB. "The person in power told me to"-European PhD students' perspectives on guest authorship and good authorship practice. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0280018. [PMID: 36634045 PMCID: PMC9836317 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Questionable authorship practices in scientific publishing are detrimental to research quality and management. The existing literature dealing with the prevalence, and perceptions, of such practices has focused on the medical sciences, and on experienced researchers. In contrast, this study investigated how younger researchers (PhD students) from across the faculties view fair authorship attribution, their experience with granting guest authorships to more powerful researchers and their reasons for doing so. Data for the study were collected in a survey of European PhD students. The final dataset included 1,336 participants from five European countries (Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, and Switzerland) representing all major disciplines. Approximately three in ten reported that they had granted at least one guest authorship to "a person in power". Half of these indicated that they had done so because they had been told to do so by the person in power. Participants from the medical, natural and technical sciences were much more likely to state that they had granted a guest authorship than those from other faculties. We identified four general views about what is sufficient for co-authorship. There were two dominant views. The first (inclusive view) considered a broad range of contributions to merit co-authorship. The second (strongly writing-oriented) emphasised that co-authors must have written a piece of the manuscript text. The inclusive view dominated in the natural, technical, and medical sciences. Participants from other faculties were more evenly distributed between the inclusive and writing oriented view. Those with an inclusive view were most likely to indicate that they have granted a guest authorship. According to the experiences of our participants, questionable authorship practices are prevalent among early-career researchers, and they appear to be reinforced through a combination of coercive power relations and dominant norms in some research cultures, particularly in the natural, technical, and medical sciences.
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- Mads Paludan Goddiksen
- Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Journalology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Religion, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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