title: Authorship inflation is unethical.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship / Q000592:standards*; D005716:Game Theory; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000639:trends*