The middle authors receive little credit, and as the number of authors per paper grow, the roles of authors listed in the middle increasingly blur.[ 26 ] Their roles have been described as varying from fairly significant contribution to virtually nothing at all.[ 5 , 6 , 27 , 28 ] ‘Citation counts, however, are historically assigned only to the first listed author and later listed authors are often buried under the et al . monster’.[ 29 ] AUTHORSHIP AND DENTAL JOURNALS Most of the contentious issues about authorship have been dealt in medical journals like Nature, Lancet, JAMA, NEJM, and the subject was in the eye of a medical storm in earlier years.
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