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Table 3 Respondents’ reporting on authorship experience according to own number of published papers (N = 654)

From: Authorship: attitudes and practice among Norwegian researchers

Publication experience

Have been involved in situations with disagreement on authorship (%)

Have been forced to accept non-deserved coauthors (%)

Have (in own opinion) been excluded from deserved authorship (%)

Finding decision on authorship and order of authors in general difficult (%)

< 5 publications N = 164

64 (39%)

47 (29%)

13 (8%)

86 (52%)

5-49 publications N = 282

175 (62%)

116 (41%)

83 (29%)

116 (41%)

> 50 publications N = 208

138 (66%)

70 (34%)

95 (46%)

35 (17%)