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Article: Authorship criteria and the role of reviewers and the editor
- Article from:
- Indian Journal of Cancer
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
- Author:
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Sir
I read with interest and some surprise, the articles "Leiomyoma of the nasal septum" by Singh et al. [1] and "Ductal adenocarcinoma of ventral surface of the tongue": an unusual presentation by Halli et al. [2] What I find puzzling is that both articles deal with an unusual pathological lesion, that is, a neoplasm at an uncommon site. In both cases, the role of the pathologist was crucial to the diagnosis. Indeed, the entire discussion in both articles is restricted to pathology, yet, I can see no pathologist as a coauthor in the article, nor is there any acknowledgement made to the pathologist. I believe that an article that is almost entirely based on morphology should have the ...