• Wim Rietdijk, Loes Mandigers, and Jan Bakker.
• Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: w.rietdijk@erasmusmc.nl.
• J Crit Care. 2020 Dec 1; 60: 202-208.

PurposePerceived Honorary Authors (PHAs) are defined as authors on manuscripts who did not contribute enough. The association between PHAs and publication chance in journals is unknown. As a start, our aim was to examine the prevalence of PHAs in the Journal of Critical Care (JCC). Furthermore, we investigated whether PHAs influences publication chance in the JCC. Also, we attempt to replicate factors associated with the prevalence of PHAs found in earlier studies.Materials And MethodsBetween January 2018 and March 2019, we invited 1310 corresponding authors of submissions after the final editorial decision to complete a survey. Descriptive statistics and multinomial and binary logistic regressions were used in data analysis.ResultsAmong the 475 respondents (response rate: 36%), we found a prevalence of PHAs of 13%. There was no significant association between PHAs and editorial decisions. Furthermore, if a senior member of the department who is automatically an author was present, our multivariate analysis showed a positive association with PHAs (OR 3.86, 95% CI 1.99-7.54). However, such senior department member was not associated with the editorial decision in the multivariate analysis.ConclusionsThe prevalence of PHAs was conform other studies 13%, and did not influence publication chance.Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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