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Group Authorship, Acknowledgments, and Rejected Manuscripts

Richard M. Glass, MD

JAMA. 1992;268(1):99.

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In 1989, THE JOURNAL instituted new requirements that all authors sign statements of authorship responsibility and financial disclosure,¹ in addition to transfer of copyright. We are now receiving an increasing number of manuscripts with authorship attributed to a group. These include multicenter clinical trials, institutional reports, and statements from various councils and collaborative groups.

Group Authorship

JAMA has permitted authorship to be attributed to a group, as long as all members of that group meet full criteria for authorship^1,2 and sign a statement that each has "participated sufficiently in the conception and design of this work and the analysis of the data [when applicable], as well as the writing of the manuscript, to take public responsibility for it."³ The members of such groups have usually been listed in a box on the first or last page of the article or in the acknowledgment at the end of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Scientific Publications Group, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Scientific Publications Group, American Medical Association, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610 (Dr Glass).

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