When advisors co-author without contributing: academia's authorship ethics debate
skoularidou · x · 2026-10-13
Researcher skoularidou raises an academic ethics question: is it plagiarism when advisors demand co-authorship on papers their mentees pursued under projects proposed and supervised by other researchers, while contributing no intellectual work — only grant funding? She asks whether paying a student grants intellectual property over their work, and whether supervisors hold authorship rights regardless of contribution, spotlighting the gray zone of "funding-for-authorship" in academia.
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