The Vancouver-protocol has been a standard for the conditions to be included as an author. However, this was not defined for the technical disciplines.
Now IEEE has defined their own version of the protocol.
IEEE considers individuals who meet all of the following criteria to be authors:
Contributors who do not meet all of the above criteria may be included in the Acknowledgment section of the article. Omitting an author who contributed to your article or including a person who did not fulfill all of the above requirements is considered a breach of publishing ethics.
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To which extent is this followed by the academia?
Are there any indication that due to the focus on number and impact of publications, artificial co-authorship is used to boost publications?
The IEEE correctly emphasises the role of data analysis, which may be missing in certain discipines doing scholarly research.
There always has been a bad tendency to include ghost authors and complimentary authorship in the author line, e.g., for the lab technician who merely shook the test tubes, or the supervisor who merely sourced the funding. These statements are correctly being made public so that everybody knows what is unethical. Still, I am sure that today there are still examples bad ethics.
Each author must be able to present the whole work at a conference, should the need arise
It seems that it is not adopted. I suggest the contributions of authors should be mentioned in one special part of paper. Anyway, It is two-edged sword that may increase or decrease the collaborations.
When you are working in the pockets of your co-authors, it is not always possible to cleanly specify the split of contributions.
The best situation is when you think that you have contributed only 33% and your co-author thinks that he / she only contributed 33%!
The experience is the contributions grow over time. Right after the paper is finished, most remember the contribution. After some time the sum of the contributions based on self-assessment exceeds 100%.
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