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WAME International Conference for medical editors

The report of WAME International Conference for medical editors by Dr. Mohammad Bagher Rokni

Application Code :

306-0215-0116

Created Date : Monday, October 12, 2015 10:23:15Update Date : Wednesday, October 14, 2015 14:20:54
IP Address : 194.225.57.25Submit Date : Wednesday, October 14, 2015 14:21:12Email : roknimoh@tums.ac.ir

Personal Information

Name :	Mohammad Bagher
Surname :	Rokni
School/Research center :	School of Public Health
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Position :	Professor
Tel :	+98-21-88950184

Information of Congress

Title of the Congress :	WAME International Conference for medical editors
Title of your Abstract :	The Prevalence of Honorary and Ghost Authorships in Iranian Bio-Medical Journals and Its Associated Factors
Destination Country :	India
From :	Thursday, October 1, 2015
To :	Sunday, October 4, 2015
Abstract(Please copy/paste the abstract send to the congress) :	Background: The purpose of this study was to detect the prevalence of ghost and honorary authors and its determinant factors in bio-medical journals of Iran. Methods: The study was done in Tehran, Kerman, and Iran Medical Universities, Iran. We contacted the first or corresponding authors of the papers had published papers in the recent two issues of Iranian Journal of Public Health, Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, and Tehran University Medical Journal. They explored the role of each coauthor and others who had done mouthing for the paper. Then, according to ICMJE criteria, we counted how many of them are real, honorary or ghost author. For the analysis, we utilized two databases. One included articles as the records and the other included authors as the records. Results: From 124 articles, with 536 authors, 301 (56.1%) were honorary authors. Each article had 4.35 authors on average, while 2.4 of them were honorary authors. The percentage of honorary author in basic science articles was about 6% more than the articles of clinical sciences. Moreover, 89% of articles had at least one honorary author. About 20% of all articles had more than three honorary authors. Besides, 25 (21.43%) authors confessed they had colleague(s) omitted from the authors list, while only one (0.81%) of them met the authorship criteria. The percentage of agreement between the corresponding and the remaining authors on the number of honorary of the authors was about 47.4% (Kappa= 0.27, P= 0.01). Conclusion: It seems that the present data might assist the authorities to make a decisive decision on amending the process of authorship in Iran.
Keywords of your Abstract :	Journal, Paper, Honorary author, Ghost author, Iran
Acceptance Letter :	http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/16218/Forms/306/Acceptance_2.pdf
The presentation :	Poster
The Cover of Abstract book :	http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/16218/Forms/306/Program and Abstracts_3.pdf
Published abstract in the abstract book with the related code :	http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/16218/Forms/306/Proceeding Abstract Dr Rokni_2.pdf
Where has your abstract been indexed? :	none
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The Congress Reporting Form

How many volunteers were present at the Congress? :	about 300
Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? :	USA-India-Pakistan- Japan-China- Egypt- Iran- England- etc
Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? :	Yes
If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box :	WHO EMRO region
What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? :	I had poster. Some questions were made and I replied them. Mostly there were discussion on the reason of honorary authors
If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. :	Only I found Dr Peush from India. He was the chief person. Others were very kind but I didn't know their names.
Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress :	Not et all.Many of them had already visited Iran during the previous medical journalism in Shiraz so no need to do any contact. Some of them were members of Executive Board of WAME society of chief editors of famous journals like BMJ. Some hese people also had visited Iran,so they are familiar with our universities.
Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) :	Nothing especial, as usual and previous travels.
Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: :	It was the first congress of WAME (International Medical Editors). so normally it had its own specific weak points and strength points. There were good discussions on different aspects of Medical Journalism and especially Indian authors were very anxious to take part in discussions. The atmosphere was very friendly and all delegates took part in discussions. Some points such as plagiarism. indexing journal in databases and scientific writing were mostly discussed. Three workshops were held and many delegates too part . Because there were some editors from BMJ, Lancet etc. in the congress, I think the quality was very good.

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