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15 Asia Pacific J. Health L. & Ethics 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/aspjhle15 and id is 1 raw text is: Asia PacifclournalofHealth Law&Ethics vol.15 no.1(November 2021), pp.1-22. © Ewha Institute for Biomedical Law & Ethics eISSN 2635-4063 ISSN 1976-3719 -TV- 2021 0 10 z 15% 1,N) FFE 2021 0 11 z 22 1 711XHVTJ 2021 0 11 z 26 1 (DOI) https://doi.org/10.38046/apjhle.2021.15.1.001 An Increase of the Papers with Multiple Corresponding Authors: A Global Trend That Includes an Inappropriate Authorship Practice in a Certain Local Academy Park, Gyuri*- Chung, GuJun**- Yang, Jongmann***- Hwang, Eun Seong**** Abstract Recently, papers with multiple corresponding authors (co-correspondence) are fre- quently noticed in scientific journals. This is a trend that parallels a significant increase in research collaboration, but its rapidity raises concern about whether the legitimacy and value of the corresponding authorship are changing or even damaged. This study investigated how extensive and sound the trend of co-correspondence in science and engineering is. The increasing trend of co-correspondence papers was confirmed by examining SCOPUS index (www.scopus.com) for the papers published by scholars of the USA, Japan, South Korea, and China in 2008-09 and 2018-2019. The number of co-correspondence papers indeed increased in all four countries. However, the numbers varied significantly among the countries, markedly higher in South Korea and China cases, which also showed far higher numbers of the papers with a co-corresponding author who is the only member from his group. To dig into reality, South Korean * Department of Life Science, University of Seoul, Student. ORCID 0000-0003-0252-461X ** Department of Life Science, University of Seoul, Master Student. ISNI 0000 0005 0450 1221 *** The Korean Academy of Science and Technology(KAST), Emeritus professor. ISNI 0000 0004 5946 167X **** Corresponding Author. Department of Life Science, University of Seoul, Professor. ISNI 0000 0004 6488 5469, e-mail: eshwangauos.ac.kr 1