Authorship disputes and patient research participation

Collaborating across backgrounds

Bibliographic Data

ID21787513
AuthorsWill Hall (0000-0001-9152-128X, Maastricht University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume19
Issue1
Pages90-101
Publication date2023-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-0161 • E-ISSN: 2047-6094
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17470161221134023
OpenAlexW4308882088
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

Public participation and survivor research in mental health are widely recognized as vital to the field. At the same time, contributions of patient collaborators can present unique challenges to determining authorship. Using an unresolved dispute around research contributions to the American Psychiatric Association’s Psychiatric Services journal, authorship and contribution are addressed. Recommendations are suggested to prevent dilemmas and achieve responsible research credit inclusion, especially among researchers with different backgrounds and asymmetric power relations. Researchers and publishers can prepare proactively for conflict through consensus on authorship criteria, prior agreements around author inclusion, arrangement for third party dispute resolution, transparency in communication and contracts, notification to prospective publications of pending disputes, a contributor-guarantor model of contribution, journal editor “expressions of concern” when authorship disputes go unresolved, and expectation of conflict as generative

Conflict resolution · Dispute resolution · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Ethics in Clinical Research · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Psychology · Social Psychology

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