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. 2021 Jul 28;21:101531. doi: 10.1016/j.jcot.2021.101531

Table 2.

Awareness of authorship guidelines and local agreements on authorship.

Awareness of N (%)
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    ICJME guidelines

 439 (91.6)
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    Guidelines of department or institution

 86 (18.0)
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    other authorship guidelines

 21 (4.4)
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    general issue honorary authorship

 325 (67.8)
No awareness of authorship-related guidelines 25 (5.2)
Senior member of department, who is automatically enlisted as author on all manuscripts 61 (12.7)
Justified by corresponding author
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    never

 6 (9.8)
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    rarely

 10 (16.4)
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    sometimes

 15 (24.6)
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    most of the time

 17 (27.2)
  • -

    always

 13 (21.3)
Dispute regarding authorship order 199 (41.5%)
Professional relationship negatively influenced by dispute regarding authorship order 121 (25.3%)