ABSTRACT
This chapter delves into the wider implications of the Office of Research Integrity's (non)decision to exclude scientific authorship in its definition of scientific misconduct. It presents to better understand the role of scientific authorship and to show how ethics in science should go beyond policing fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism (FFP). Research misconduct became a public issue in 1981 during Congressional hearings that were held in response to some high-profile cases of unethical research. Beyond plagiarism, no matter how it is defined or delineated, the question of authorship ethics - and of authorship itself - reveals another, deeper, philosophical issue. Authorship and publication issues that fall under the purview of journals include discussions of defining the author(s), credit allocation, best practices for author order, self-plagiarism. Conceived in relation to lines and fields of ethical forces constantly shifting in tension, the concept of writing, and thus of authorship ethics, emerge as their own force and are empowered.
