Checking news
authorship not only contributes to assessments of news fakeness or quality but also reinforces journalistic accountability.
* To know the journal wise distribution of
authorship pattern,
The new literacies engaged during this kind of digital
authorship are the social narratives of shared play, 'steeped in collaboration and companionship' (Lankshear & Knobel, 2017, p.
Clearly, technology makes media
authorship more accessible.
The ICMJE recommends that
authorship be based on the following criteria:
For journals and editors, Israel agreed with Leung that writing
authorship definitions into journal instructions for authors is important.
As mentor, I defer first
authorship to the mentee and accept the position of last (senior) author.
The Constitution authorizes Congress "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." (147) As noted above, courts have largely declined to rely on this language to deny idea-contributors copyright joint
authorship, apparently because no court has seriously questioned the constitutionality of the Copyright Act's work-for-hire provisions--provisions which recognize an employer as the "author" of an employee's copyrightable creations even where the employer has creatively contributed nothing to the work, much less an idea.
To carry out this article, a search was conducted in the Medline bibliographic database by using the descriptors "
authorship", "students", "academicians", and "ethics" and their different combinations.
Participation consisted of responding to an online survey, which assessed knowledge and perception of inappropriate
authorship. The study achieved a 41% response rate; the participants were primarily nurses (75.2%), holding a PhD degree (78.7%), and in an academic position (70.4%).
Collaboration is studied only as it relates to joint
authorship. Other types of collaboration outside of
authorship are not considered.