ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the minimum required information about academic bullying and its root causes and some key lessons to protect the students future careers and mental health. The tactics of academic bullying overlap with workplace bullying but may result in consequences unique to the academic environment such as violations of intellectual property, unfair crediting of authors, and coercion to sign away authorship and/or intellectual property rights. The unfortunate reality is that mild incidents of academic bullying such as insults, snubs, and invasions of privacy by lab leaders are now considered as a norm in many high-ranking universities. Even at the higher level and with more serious types of bullying, which can include violations of intellectual property and unfair crediting of authors in scientific publications, targets are hesitant to speak up due to several reasons including less trust to the fair and unbiased investigation by the institutions.
