Authorship & publication

Authorship

• COPE authorship guide for new researchers
• UW School of Medicine 2007 Ghost Authorship Policy
• University of Minnesota Ethics Curriculum on Authorship
• Guest authorship and ghostwriting
• Ross et al 2008 JAMA paper on guest authorship and gostwriting using Vioxx as a case study
• DeAngelis&Fontanarosa 2008 JAMA editorial discussing lessons learned from Vioxx litigation and proposing new procedures for clinical trials
• 2008 Nature Medicine editorial suggesting JAMA has gone too far
• Science editorial on authorship and data ownership

Peer review: see Peer review

Publication ethics

• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) home page
• COPE Code of conduct and Best practice guidelines
• COPE Flow charts for editors

Publishing

• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) website
• Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations) (Formerly the Uniform requirements for manuscripts) (URM)
• Authorship
• Conflict of interest

Reporting statistics: see Reporting results

Writing

• Miguel Roig's BMJ commentary 'Ethical writing should be taught' includes definitions of plagarisim.
• Miguel Roig's paper Avoiding Those Little Inadvertent Lies When Writing Papers introduces the concept of ethical writing and gives a succinct overview of many ethical violations in writing
• Some papers on technical writing
• Ehrenberg "Writing Technical Papers or Reports" published in the American Statistician
• Gopen & Swan on "The Science of Scientific Writing"
• Rothman on "Writing for Epidemiology"
• See also plagiarism
• William Strunk's famous/classic little book "The Elements of Style" is available online at www.bartleby.com/141/
• A company called "Scitext Cambridge" has a reasonable document on the "Effective Writing: Principles of Science Writing"
  

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REFERENCES

Anderson I, Avoiding plagiarism in academic writing, Nursing standard 2009, November. 23, 18, 35-37.

Burns D, Cut out the Plagiarism, Nursing standard 2009, Feb; 23(25):59-65.

Handa S. Plagiarism and publication ethics : Dos’ and don’ts. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2008 Mar;74: 301-3

Albert, T., and E. Wager. "How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers (The COPE Report 2003)." (2003).

Ross, Joseph S., et al. "Guest authorship and ghostwriting in publications related to rofecoxib: a case study of industry documents from rofecoxib litigation." Jama 299.15 (2008): 1800-1812.

DeAngelis, Catherine D., and Phil B. Fontanarosa. "Impugning the integrity of medical science: the adverse effects of industry influence." JAMA 299.15 (2008): 1833-1835.

Ehrenberg, A. S. C. "Writing technical papers or reports." The American Statistician 36.4 (1982): 326-329.

Gopen, George D., and A. Judith. "If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs." (1990).

Rothman, Kenneth J. "Writing for epidemiology." Epidemiology 9.3 (1998): 333-337.