这是一个比较有趣的例子,也引发了不少读者的跟贴与讨论。众所周知,作者权(Authorship)对于科学工作者来说是十分重要的,它评价其科学成就的一个关键指标,也直接影响到他们的现实利益。现在的科研项目通常都是多人合作完成,但并不是每个人都适合被列为论文的作者。对于如何界定作者权,目前科学界有一些标准,而被采用最广泛的当属国际医学期刊编辑委员会(International Committee of Medical Juornal Editors,ICMJE)所制定的Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication(http://www.icmje.org/)。 ICMJE认为要成为一篇论文的作者必须要同时满足以下三个条件: 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published.
“Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone ”并不符合成为作者的条件。并且“Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. ”