WHY GIFTING AUTHORSHIP MATTERS
The gifting of authorship is common; authors of an observational study of three general medical journals found that up to 20% of papers reviewed had honorary authors (Bates et al., It would be informative to understand from the trial authors why Dr Morisky was included as an author on their paper. If he made the required substantial contribution to the research, then the author contribution statement in the paper should be corrected, as should the conflict‐of‐interest section of the manuscript. Dr Morisky would then probably also then have a claim to authorship on the second paper (Haji Ali Beigloo et al., 