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OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalences of perceived honorary authorship and
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)-defined honorary
authorship, and identify factors affecting each rate in the physical medicine and
rehabilitation literature. DESIGN: Internet-based survey. SETTING: Not applicable.
PARTICIPANTS: First authors of articles published in 3 major physical
medicine and rehabilitation journals between January 2009 and December 2011 were
surveyed in June and July 2012 (N=1182). INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable. MAIN
OUTCOME MEASURES: The reported prevalences of perceived and ICMJE-defined
honorary authorship were the primary outcome measures, and multiple factors were
analyzed to determine whether they were associated with these measures. RESULTS:
The response rate was 27.3% (248/908). The prevalences of perceived and
ICMJE-defined honorary authorship were 18.0% (44/244) and 55.2% (137/248),
respectively. Factors associated with perceived honorary authorship in the
multivariate analysis included the suggestion that an honorary author should be
included (P<.0001), being a medical resident or fellow (P=.0019), listing
"reviewed manuscript" as 1 of the nonauthorship tasks (P=.0013), and the most
senior author deciding the authorship order (P=.0469). Living outside North
America was independently associated with ICMJE-defined honorary authorship
(P=.0079) in the multivariate analysis. In the univariate analysis, indicating
that the most senior author decided authorship order was significantly associated
with ICMJE-defined honorary authorship (P=<.001). CONCLUSIONS: Our results
suggest that honorary authorship does occur in a significant proportion of the
physical medicine and rehabilitation literature. Additionally, we found several
factors associated with perceived and ICMJE-defined honorary authorship and a
discrepancy between the 2 rates. Further studies with larger response rates are
recommended to further explore this topic.
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