Journal article
Perish and publish: Dynamics of biomedical publications by deceased authors
CH Jung, PC Boutros, DJ Park, NM Corcoran, BJ Pope, CM Hovens
Plos One | Published : 2022
Abstract
The question of whether it is appropriate to attribute authorship to deceased individuals of original studies in the biomedical literature is contentious. Authorship guidelines utilized by journals do not provide a clear consensus framework that is binding on those in the field. To guide and inform the implementation of authorship frameworks it would be useful to understand the extent of the practice in the scientific literature, but studies that have systematically quantified the prevalence of this phenomenon in the biomedical literature have not been performed to date. To address this issue, we quantified the prevalence of publications by deceased authors in the biomedical literature from ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Support for our analyses was provided through a NHMRC project grant 1162514 to CMH<EM><STRONG> </STRONG></EM>and the PRECEPT program grant, co-funded by Movember and the Australian Federal Government to NMC. BP was supported by a Victorian Health and Medical Research Fellowship from the Department of Health and Human Services in the State of Victoria. NMC was supported by a David Bickart Clinician Researcher Fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, and more recently by a Movember - Distinguished Gentleman's Ride Clinician Scientist Award through the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia's Research Program. PCB is supported by NIH/NCI P30CA016042, 1U01CA214194-01 and 1U24CA248265-01.