{"title":"Preventing the possible misuse of higher academic positions in availing undeserved authorship in publications","authors":"V. Shanbhag","doi":"10.4103/0974-7761.188570","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Being an author in a peer-reviewed publication is vital in academia. It is possible that there might be an undetected misuse of higher academic positions for availing undeserved authorship in scientific papers. This article highlights the possible undetected unethical practice and suggests measures to curb this menace.","PeriodicalId":348927,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Ethics in Dentistry","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Education and Ethics in Dentistry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-7761.188570","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Being an author in a peer-reviewed publication is vital in academia. It is possible that there might be an undetected misuse of higher academic positions for availing undeserved authorship in scientific papers. This article highlights the possible undetected unethical practice and suggests measures to curb this menace.