1. University of Missouri, Columbia
Authorship
Eileen Hasser
University of Missouri, Columbia
2001 Women in Physiology/Pharmacology Workshop

2. Authorship
“You don’t expect me to know what to say about a play when I don’t know who the author is, do you?…If it’s by a good author, it’s a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.”
George Bernard Shaw
In: Day, 1983

3. When do you decide on authorship?
EARLY !!!

4. Agreements (Besides authorship)
Who will be responsible for settling disputes
Who will manage revisions
Who will deal with editors

5. Who gets to be an author?

6. Defining Authorship Central Principle:
Authorship should include person(s) who can take public intellectual responsibility for the content.

7. Central Principle of Authorship
Responsibility:
- Can defend the intellectual content, including data and conclusions.
- Must be willing to concede publicly any errors.
- In the case of fraud: be willing to state publicly the nature and extent, and account for its occurrence.

8. Criteria for Authorship
1. Generate at least part of the intellectual content.
A) Conception or design of the work
B) Data analysis and interpretation
2. Drafting, reviewing or revising critically for important intellectual content.
3. Final approval of the version to be published.
All three criteria must be met.

9. Order of Authorship Alphabetical Significance to the Study (variable)
First - Primary responsibility for collecting & analyzing data, writing draft of manuscript.
Last - Established investigator - overall responsibility for the study.
Middle - Order of importance to the study.

10. Acknowledgments Intellectual contributions Technical contributions
Financial contributions
In separate paragraphs

11. Examples of Authorship
Dr. Goodthought
Acknowledge Mr. Brightidea
Dr. Goodthought and Mr. Brightidea
Acknowledge Dr. Runassay
Goodthought, Brightidea and Runassay

12. Summary Decide early Responsibility Intellectual Public Order
Acknowledgments