论文信息 - Equal authorship for equal authors: personal experience as an equal author in twenty peer-reviewed medical publications during the last three years.

Equal authorship for equal authors: personal experience as an equal author in twenty peer-reviewed medical publications during the last three years.

To the editor, Authors’ contributions to medical publications are semi-quantitatively assessed by order of authorship, with earlier listed authors generally having increasingly important contributions. Standard medical indexes, such as PubMed or MEDLINE, uniformly list authors of publications in peer-reviewed journals sequentially, without provision for designating equal authorship for equal contributors. This omission can discriminate against the second of equal authors, who is viewed as a lesser contributing author. This letter analyzes this problem and proposes an equitable solution, based on personal experience with twenty publications during the last three years. This work received an exemption/approval by the William Beaumont Hospital Institutional Review Board on January 11, 2016.

Mitchell S Cappell | M. Cappell

[1] M. Cappell,et al. Distinctive aspects of peptic ulcer disease, Dieulafoy's lesion, and Mallory-Weiss syndrome in patients with advanced alcoholic liver disease or cirrhosis. , 2016, World journal of gastroenterology.

[2] Nisha Sharma,et al. Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Manifestations of Ebola Virus Infection , 2015, Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

[3] M. Cappell,et al. Gastrointestinal bleeding from Dieulafoy's lesion: Clinical presentation, endoscopic findings, and endoscopic therapy. , 2015, World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy.