AUTHORSHIP: WHAT PUBLIC HEALTH SCHOLARS NEED TO KNOW

[摘要] The debate among researchers in healthscience in the requirements of authorshipsstill exists, especially in the area of publichealth, which often involve diversedisciplines in collaborative project. Thiscondition however may impact to the weakcollaboration and may not able to maintaingood working relationship amongindividuals or institutions. There are twoproblems that have been highlighted,namely honorary authorship (known as“courtesy,” “gift,” or “guest” authorship;authors who have not met authorshipcriteria), and ghost authorship (anindividual makes a substantial contributionto the research or the writing of the report,but is not named as an author).