AUTHORS, COAUTORS AND OTHER CHARACTERS:

THE ETHICAL DILEMMS OF AUTHORIZATION IN AUTHORIZATION IN LEGAL RESEARCH - OR HOW TO GET THERE COMPLETELY AT THE END OF THE MATCH

Abstract

Abstract: According to the ethical guidelines that govern academic research, who can be considered the legitimate author of a study? What contributions are sufficient for the establishment of authorship in the academic environment? How do we know if we deserve the status of co-authors or if we should appear only in the acknowledgment section of a published work? How should we proceed to avoid, as much as possible, authorship conflicts in academic research? How should authors and editors handle authorship disputes already installed? From these questions, we observed, through interdisciplinary bibliographic research, that many areas of study have been alerting to the deleterious effects of academic productivism on the attribution of authorship; which sometimes inflates the credits of some researchers, sometimes usurps those of others. In the last evaluative cycles of Brazilian graduate studies, the Law area has adopted assessment instruments that emphasize punctuation for published work, to the detriment of other aspects of academic life; For this reason, we understand that legal research may be vulnerable to the risks of the productivist paradigm. In this context, we conducted documentary research in order to analyze and problematize the ethical guidelines on attribution of authorship established by the main national and international research regulation bodies. We hope that, like other areas, we can also place a culture of good practice at the epicenter of our debates.