Ethics Forum - Authorship: Rules, Rights, Responsibilities and Recommendations
Dhanpati Sahu, P. L. R. Abraham · TSpace (University of Toronto) · 2000
There was a time when people preferred writing anonymously, there was a time when nobody objected to someone having published the same article at eight different places, there was a time when most of the manuscripts were written single handedly.1 Times have changed. Now, more and more people want to be associated with a manuscript, publishing the same manuscript more than once is considered unethical, and multi-authored articles are the norm. Newer issues like contributorship, conflicts of interest, corporate authorships, etc. have come into the picture