It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says
Bullying is often left off the list of matters that constitute research misconduct, but experience suggests something needs to be done. As is demonstrated by events recently reported (September 2017) in the Australian press.
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“It got as far as two sets of lawyers before there was a back-down,” it continued.
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The story struck a chord because I too had recently been a named party in a two-sets-of-lawyers interaction over what was eventually categorised as an “unfortunate misunderstanding” – namely, another professor’s strongly-held belief that his/her name (I’ll leave gender out of it for now) belonged on my papers (yes, plural).
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