TY  - JOUR
T1  - Authorship and Ethical Considerations in the Conduct of Observational Studies
AU  - TornettaIII, Paul
AU  - Siegel, Jodi
AU  - McKay, Paula
AU  - Bhandari, Mohit
Y1  - 2009/05/01
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.H.01538
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 61
EP  - 67
VL  - 91
IS  - Supplement_3
N2  - Surgeons who participate in research studies frequently struggle with a number of challenges when determining authorship of the publications that arise from their research. Furthermore, new concerns relating to who receives credit and who takes responsibility have emerged with the increase in multicenter research collaborations. This paper provides a discussion of the importance of authorship and outlines a number of ethical issues that commonly arise when determining the author byline. We also present some strategies, such as publishing under group authorship, listing individual author contributions, and revising the mechanism for acknowledging nonauthor contributions, that have the potential to improve authorship and publication practices.
SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.H.01538
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.H.01538
ER  -