%0 Journal Article
%T Un an¨¢lisis de la autor¨ªa en los art¨ªculos publicados en la Revista M¨¦dica de Chile
%A Jacard C
%A Marcela
%A Herskovic M
%A Viviana
%A Hern¨¢ndez A
%A Ismael
%A Reyes B
%A Humberto
%J Revista m¨¦dica de Chile
%D 2002
%I Sociedad M¨¦dica de Santiago
%R 10.4067/S0034-98872002001200009
%X background: multiauthorship and unjustified authorship have been documented in journals with wide international circulation but this has not been thoroughly studied in journals from developing countries. revista m¨¦dica de chile is published in spanish and it contains about 40% of the clinical and biomedical manuscripts generated by chilean authors. objectives: to evaluate temporal trends in the number of authors per article in rev med chile and authors£¿ compliance with the international committee of medical journal editors (icmje) criteria of authorship (updated 2001). design: a retrospective analysis of the number of authors per article between 1969 and 2000; and a prospective survey applying a contribution checklist to authors of manuscripts published in the year 2000. "justified authorship" was assigned to whom self-declared contributions to: 1) conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article, or critically reviewed it; and 3) approved the final version. "partial authorship" to whom lacked one of those 3 criteria. "unjustified authorship" was assigned to whom participated only in data collection, or in diagnostic/therapeutic procedures, or in the statistical analysis, or in combinations lacking the main descriptors required for justified authorship. results: the number of authors in research articles increased in the last decade: from 3.9¡À1.6 (mean¡Àsd) in 1969 and 4.9¡À2.0 in 1989 to 5.7¡À2.5* in 1994, 5.2¡À2.6* in 1999 and 5.4¡À2.2* in 2000 (*p <0.05 compared to previous years). in contrast, it remained stable in case reports (4.1¡À1.9) and in reviews, public health or medical education articles (3.3¡À1.8). among 921 authors surveyed (90% of authors in the year 2000), 51.2% qualified for "justified authorship", 42.3% for "partial authorship" and only 6.4% for "unjustified authorship". conclusions: in a medical journal from a developing country, multiauthorship has increased mildly in research
%K authorship
%K manuscripts
%K medical
%K multilingualism
%K periodicals
%K writing.
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