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Guest authors: no place in any journal

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In the pursuit of tenure, you encourage academics in Europe to include a senior department member as co-author on their papers (Nature 468, 123–125; 2010). Regardless of any geographical limitation, it was very disappointing to see this endorsement of guest authorship published in Nature.

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Editor's note Nature requests author contributions statements and does not condone guest authorship (see http://go.nature.com/uzgbki). The intended meaning of the ambiguous sentence was that tenure-track scientists should seek out senior department members as collaborators and contributing co-authors.

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Glass, R. Guest authors: no place in any journal. Nature 468, 765 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468765e

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