On Authorship and Acknowledgments

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LARGE clinical trials from multiple institutions now involve dozens and sometimes hundreds of people in their conception, design, implementation, analysis, and preparation of reports for publication. Increasingly, we have become concerned about two interrelated aspects of many reports of multicenter studies: ambiguous authorship and lengthy acknowledgments.Clear specification of authors is essential so that any substantive questions about a submitted or published study can be resolved. Authorship has been defined in many ways, but most of the definitions have in common a requirement that authors have sufficient intellectual involvement with the overall study to be able to take responsibility for . . .

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