Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 90-101 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Research Ethics Review |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2023 |
Keywords
- Ethics
- citizen science
- authorship
- authorship disputes
- research ethics
- publication ethics
- patient research participation
- survivor research
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