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Can I publish without affiliation?
Yes, definitely you can publish papers without an institution name. You can put your home address. Generally, journals asked affiliation from the authors to confirm the availability of authors if anyone wants to contact you.
What is Ghost authorship?
A ghost author is a person who has made a substantial contribution to the research or writing of a manuscript but is not named as an author [2–4]. Those who make small contributions that would not qualify them as an author should be listed in the acknowledgements with the extent of their contribution clearly stated.
Collaborator names are included redundantly even if they have also been included as authors for the citation (because they also appear in the byline or are explicitly identified in the article as the authors).
What is a ghost Journal?
There has been much anecdotal evidence of the existence of ghost-writing – that is, someone who contributed substantially to a paper not being named as an author – (and its linked problem, guest authorship – that is, individuals not deserving of authorship being named as authors), in hematology journals1 and in other …
There are important ethical issues to understand with both honorary and ghost authorship. Ghost authorship is likewise problematic and unethical, as it does not provide credit where credit is due and can be used to manipulate the data and findings.
How do you list co authors?
As mentioned above, the most common way authors are listed is by relative contribution. The author who most substantially worked on the draft article and the underlying research becomes the first author. The others are ranked in descending order of contribution.
External Collaborators, Including Sponsor or Industry Representatives. Individuals who meet the criteria for authorship should be included as authors irrespective of their institutional affiliations.
Is there a way to validate an author’s affiliation?
The authors report that in 38% of the cases, an author’s affiliation could not be validated. They suggest to use ORCID identifiers as a way to validate affiliations, but use among Chilean authors was still low. But, as you can see from the green ID symbols on the title page, Bachelet and all het co-authors lead by example!
In today’s world where science becomes more and more collaborative and multi-disciplinary, papers usually have multiple affiliations, just like the one listed above. And an individual author can be associated with multiple institutions as well, so the affiliation section can become very long. A paper with a lot of authors and affiliations.
What does affiliation mean in a scientific paper?
In scientific papers, the “affiliation” is the institute that each author belongs to. It is usually listed below the author names, as the “department, university” of the institute each authors worked at during the time that the study was conducted. Title and affiliations of a paper I wrote with coauthors Casadevall and Fang.
Is it OK for researchers to have multiple affiliations?
Usually a researcher will list their affiliation as the place they worked when they actually did the research (sometimes accompanied by a place of current work). It is also OK for researchers to have multiple affiliations (albeit very annoying to fill out when you submit a manuscript, hahahah).