خلاصة:
Context: The authorship issue is a major ethical challenge for professional researchers. Authorship
trend is an indirect indicator of professional manner regarding the Medical Education researchers.
Aims: This study is conducted to compare the trends of authorship in four high impact journals in
the field of Medical Education. Materials and Methods: The authorship trends of two high impact
English Journals in Medical Education: The Medical Teacher and the Medical Education versus the two
high impact Persian Journals in Medical Education: The Strides in Development of Medical Education
Journal and the Iranian Journal of Medical Education (IJME) are compared in this study. Statistical
analysis was performed using IBM SPSS version 19, Minitab version 17 and Excel add-in Megastat
version 10.1 software. Results: The authorship trends of 6699 articles in the four journals of concern
are analyzed. Over the past 12 years, the mean number of authors has increased in both the Persian
and one of the English Journals. The trend lines of single authored articles in the English Journals
and the IJME decreased in a significant manner. However, in the Persian Journals, the percentage of
single‑author articles is obviously lower than the English Journals. Conclusion: The increasing number
of authors per article could be considered as a sign of increased collaborative research or authorship
misconducts in this field. Further research is recommended to study the causes and contributing
factors in the increasing trend of authorship in the Persian Journals.
ملخص الجهاز:
A comparative study on authorship trends in four Persian and English Journals in the field of Medical Education Alireza Yousef y, Mohammad Fakhari DeQortinent o Medical E ducativn, Medium Educotivn Research C enter , 1s ahas University o Medical Science , 1s ahas , Iran Address for Correspondence: Dr. Mohammad Fakhari, Department of Medical Education, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, I ran.
Aims: This study is conducted to compare the trends of authorship in four high impact journals in the field of Medical Education.
The trend lines of single authored articles in the English journals and the SME decreased in a significant manner.
As for the English Jour nals, the Med ical Teacher had 35 articles and the Medical Education had 8 articles with 11 or more authors during these 17 years.
Discussion The findings in this study revealed the mean number of auth‹ rs per article in the Medical Educati‹ n journal d id not change over the time wh ile other jo urnals had increasing trend lines.
Heydari and Safavi found that 8% of all published articles in the Journal ‹ f Research in Medical Sciences were single authored.
Another study in the field of bioethics revealed that 64% of articles published in this journal were single auth‹ red.
The Medical Teacher Journal has an increasing trend line in ar ticles with 6- lO authors.