The White Bull effect: abusive coauthorship and publication parasitism
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- 30 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Vol. 31 (9) , 554-556
Abstract
Junior researchers can be abused and bullied by unscrupulous senior collaborators. This article describes the profile of a type of serial abuser, the White Bull, who uses his academic seniority to distort authorship credit and who disguises his parasitism with carefully premeditated deception. Further research into the personality traits of such perpetrators is warranted.Keywords
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