Ghost Authorship

Synonym: Misleading attribution

 

The practice of using a non-named (merited, but not listed) author to write or prepare a text for publication.

 

Cited in Glossary for Academic Integrity. ENAI Report 3G [online] (2018): Oxford University Press. OUP statement on publication ethics, https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/authors/ethics

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