title: Letter to the Editor: Respecting the Plurality of Value and the Messiness of Scientific Practice.
abstract: Evaluations of authorship and recommendations for authorship policies best heed the plurality of valuation cultures that traverse scientific practices and respect the messiness of scientific practices, for those are reflected in authorship and authorship sequence decisions.
authors.affiliation: a Health, Ethics & Society, School of Public Health & Primary Care (CAPHRI) , Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Penders
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship / Q000592:standards*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans
keywords: Authorship; collaboration; philosophy of science; public policy; publication; science policy