Article Text
PDFResearch ethics
The White Bull effect: abusive coauthorship and publication parasitism
Abstract
Junior researchers can be abused and bullied by unscrupulous senior collaborators. This article describes the profile of a type of serial abuser, the White Bull, who uses his academic seniority to distort authorship credit and who disguises his parasitism with carefully premeditated deception. Further research into the personality traits of such perpetrators is warranted.
- ICMJE, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
- NH&MRC, National Health and Medical Research Council
- bullying
- coauthorship
- collaboration
- misconduct
- research conduct
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- Honorary and ghost authorship in high impact biomedical journals: a cross sectional survey
- Awareness, usage and perceptions of authorship guidelines: an international survey of biomedical authors
- Honorary authorship in postgraduate medical training
- Authorship of research papers: ethical and professional issues for short-term researchers
- Have ignorance and abuse of authorship criteria decreased over the past 15 years?
- The Meaning of Author Order in Medical Research
- Authorship ignorance: views of researchers in French clinical settings
- Prospective registration and reporting of trial number in randomised clinical trials: global cross sectional study of the adoption of ICMJE and Declaration of Helsinki recommendations
- When I use a word . . . The ICMJE requirements and recommendations
- Accessibility and transparency of editor conflicts of interest policy instruments in medical journals