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Joseph S Wislar, Annette Flanagin, Phil B Fontanarosa, Catherine D DeAngelis. Honorary and ghost authorship in high impact biomedical journals: a cross sectional survey BMJ. 2011; 343: d6128.

Kovacs J, Honorary authorship epidemic in scholarly publications? How the current use of citation-based evaluative metrics make

(pseudo)honorary authors from honest contributors of every multi author article. J Med Ethics. 2012 Sep 15. [Epub ahead of print].)

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: ethical considerations in the conduct and reporting of research: authorship and contributorship. 2009. www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html.