In the pursuit of tenure, you encourage academics in Europe to include a senior department member as co-author on their papers (Nature 468, 123–125; 2010). Regardless of any geographical limitation, it was very disappointing to see this endorsement of guest authorship published in Nature.
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Glass, R. Guest authors: no place in any journal. Nature 468, 765 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468765e
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