@article{ref1,
title="Does it mean anything if your own name is wrong in your published paper?",
journal="FASEB Journal",
year="2009",
author="Trikalinos, Thomas A.",
volume="23",
number="8",
pages="2345-2348",
abstract="Journals instruct authors to proofread their accepted manuscripts before signing them off for publication and expect them to submit errata to correct any mistakes identified thereafter. Herein, I examine papers with obvious errors in the author name list. I queried PubMed for papers under common Greek forenames looking for citations where author surnames and forenames are swapped. I identified 113 such papers from 101 journals. Author names are corrected with errata only in 20, after a median of 6.5 mo. Time to name correction is shorter for journals with impact factor above the median (P=0.015). To further explore this suggested association of apparent author sloppiness with journal impact, I use as controls all errata published between 1996 and 2008 in 5 top-cited general medical journals (New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and British Medical Journal); 3.4% of the latter contain name corrections (vs. 18.1% of all errata in the 101 journals during the same period, P<10(-6)). Egregious errors may be markers of cursory if any proofreading and, therefore, markers for additional unidentified inaccuracies. In addition, I wonder whether authors may be as reluctant to rectify other, nonobvious (yet potentially consequential) mistakes after a paper's publication.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0892-6638",
doi="10.1096/fj.09-130922",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.09-130922"
}