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Authorship of scientific articles is widely regarded as the one of the most objective of the criteria that can be used to determine academic achievement. As such, authorship is frequently used to assess the merit of academic promotion and subsequently of substantial social and financial benefit. In some cases the benefit may be direct (there are some institutions that give financial reward to authors from that institution) though usually the benefit is indirect in that authorship is an important factor in determining the outcome of grant applications. It is not surprising, therefore, that there is considerable pressure on individual scientists to ensure that their names are included on every possible paper, regardless of their actual contribution to the work that is being presented. The opportunities for being included as an author are much greater now than in the past, with a growing number, size and diversity of collaborative projects leading to an ever increasing number of papers being published in an ever increasing number of journals. Collaborative, multi-disciplinary studies have become the mainstay of high quality research in health, and perhaps the majority of publications in international journals from developing countries now stem from international collaborative research projects. One of the characteristics of scientific publication has been the rapid change from single-author papers to multi-author papers.

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Vol. 2 Núm.2. Abril 2008 Pags. 78-80. J Infect Developing Countries 2008; 2(2)