I work at the School of Health Sciences, #DundeeUni, UK. Reading, not lecturing.
I am a psychologist interested in
Health-related Quality of Life #HRQL
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Multimorbidity #Psychometrics #RStats
And I still have a home in #PsychotherapyResearch
Ex-#REF2021 & I was a #NightshiftEditor
Main work account at Bluesky. Here also more community stuff around #Dundee #Scotland #Gaidhlig #DunDeCofaidh
Views expressed in my posts are my own.
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A common sentiment among reviewers and editors:
"authors who use random abbreviations shouldn't be allowed to publish"
Said only half tongue-in-cheek. It's really annoying. If there is to be any legit use of LLMs in scientific publishing, let it be to expand all the acronyms.
Don't assume others know what an acronym means, or that it means the same thing in a related but adjacent field of research.
New #coffee shop in the #DundeeUni area!
#DunDeCofaidh
Halò
Opens Mon-Sat 8am (Sun 10am)
#FlatWhite £3.50
#Espresso £3.00
Just on the limit of #EarlyCoffee.
When I returned today, the barista remembered my order 👍
Chan eil mi cinnteach a bheil iad a' bruidhinn Gàidhlig ge-tà.*
#Cofaidh #DundeeCoffee #Dundee
* Shop name is "Hello" in Gaelic, seems a fair question?
Finally, alphabetical authorship lists got their honorary heated exchange as well. 😅
We looked at the Contributor Roles Taxonomy ( #CRediT ), covering contributions typically made to research outputs:
https://credit.niso.org/
@tenzingContrib
Designed to look at contributions instead of #authorships, it is much more inclusive.
Brief guide by #DundeeUni colleagues:
https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/credit-taxonomy-recognising-research-contributions/
For ways forward, we looked at #ICMJE definitions of the roles of authors and contributors:
https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html
While offering clear criteria, they can be further improved with view to the responsibilities of authors and #ResearchIntegrity:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1161
For ways forward, we looked at #ICMJE definitions of the roles of authors and contributors:
https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html
While offering clear criteria, they can be further improved with view to the responsibilities of authors and #ResearchIntegrity:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1161
Background Several studies suggest that deviations from proper authorship practices are commonplace in medicine. The aim of this study was to explore experiences of and attitudes towards the handling of authorship in PhD theses at medical faculties in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Methods Those who defended their PhD thesis at a medical faculty in Scandinavia during the second half of 2020 were offered, by e-mail, to participate in an online survey. Survey questions dealt with experiences of violations of the first three of the ICMJE authorship criteria and misuse of authorship order in the thesis articles, as well as respondents’ attitudes to these matters. Both questions with fixed response alternatives and questions with free-text responses were used. Quantitative data were analysed statistically using the Table functions in SPSS 25 and Chi-2 tests. Free-text responses were analysed qualitatively using manifest content analysis. Results 287 valid questionnaires were returned (response rate: 34.1%). Almost half (46.0%) of the respondents reported that the ICMJE authorship criteria were not fully respected in at least one of the papers in their thesis, while a vast majority (96.7%) found it important that authorship is handled according to the ICMJE authorship criteria. 24.4% reported inadequate handling of authorship order in at least one paper. The qualitative results provide a wide spectrum of examples of how the ICMJE authorship criteria are circumvented. Conclusion Despite increasing educational efforts to reduce deviations from good research practice at Scandinavian universities, the handling of authorship in medical papers remains problematic.
Good discussion at our #HealthSciences #PGR coffee morning about #authorship, especially when publishing with supervisors or larger teams.
I used this recent paper to create a space for sharing experience and practice:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2026.2633517
Albert Cardona
Kathrine Cuccuru
