PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - L S Kwok TI - The White Bull effect: abusive coauthorship and publication parasitism AID - 10.1136/jme.2004.010553 DP - 2005 Sep 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 554--556 VI - 31 IP - 9 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/9/554.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/9/554.full SO - J Med Ethics2005 Sep 01; 31 AB - 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.