Gift Authorship

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Even though all forms of authorship misconduct are unacceptable and unethical and strongly discourages the scientific researchers, but in my view I believe that the gift authorship is the most significant to avoid.
Gift authorship is giving co-authorship or listing as an author to a person who has no substantial contribution to the research and this is an unacceptable practice for academic publication and unethical. Gift authorship is a clear evidence that the publication falsely represents the individual's expertise. For this and many other reasons, I believe that the gift authorship is the most dangerous authorship

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