domingo, 1 de agosto de 2021

Necroauthorship__O milagre dos cientistas que continuam a publicar 10 anos depois de terem morrido


Em 2018 questionei durante quantos anos após a morte de um cientista o nome deste poderia continuar a aparecer como co-autor de artigos, em evidente violação das regras de autoria, vide email abaixo, curiosamente no passado dia 29 de Julho foi publicado um artigo na revista Scientometrics, cujo autor sugere uma nova palavra para descrever essa milagrosa capacidade "necroauthorshiphttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-021-04107-6 onde é mencionado o caso de um cientista que dez anos após ter morrido ainda continuava  a publicar. E será que as revistas científicas não deveriam exigir a todos os co-autores uma prova de vida ? 
 

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De: F. Pacheco Torgal
Enviado: 29 de Outubro de 2018 13:08
Assunto: The immortal scientists that keep on publishing even after they´ve died

Why is that science watchdogs are not very much concerned over fake authorship? Do they really believe its normal that someone can produce a paper every 5 days has been mentioned by Stanford Full Professor John Ioannidis in the email below?

Let´s look for instance to Arnold L. Rheingold who according to Scopus has 2055 publications and that in 2018 at the age of 78 years old has manage to publish 37 journal papers. Or Howard Maibach that has 1734 Scopus publications and at the age of 89 years old publishes around 25 Scopus publications per year. Or to Harold A.Scheraga that has 1239 Scopus publications and keeps on publishing at the age of 97 ! What do they drink ? Science viagra ?

Or even better to Alan Roy Katritzky who according to Scopus has/had 1658 publications. Its truth that he died at the age of 86 years the same year that he published 27 publications referenced on Scopus being that even one year after his death almost a dozen with his name were published referenced on Scopus. Of course, we can imagine a scientist that left his "team" so many excellent ideas that for the next years after his death they keep on adding his name to the publications ! But how many years after one´s death is it possible to keep publishing? 1, 5, 50 years ?