Authorship of a scientific paper is a privilege that is all too easily abused. Attempts to solve the problem with general rules encounter insurmountable obstacles, but individual accountability is unavoidable.
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Games people play with authors' names. Nature 387, 831 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/43001
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