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Nature 426, 602 (11 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/426602a

QUAD system offers fair shares to all authors

Justus V. Verhagen1, Karin J. Wallace2, Stephan C. Collins3 & Thomas R. Scott4

  1. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
  2. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
  3. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
  4. College of Sciences, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182-1010, USA

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Showing who did what could solve the problem of authorship abuse and disputes.

Authorship is the currency of modern science, the measure of one's contribution to the literature. Yet while the contents of an article are held to strict scientific standards, the recognition of authorship is far less so.