Today, some people contacted me on LinkedIn to ask me if I have any papers where I could sell the authorship. I was quite amazed that someone would ask me that… But I have heard that it is something that is happening nowadays in Academia. Of course, I would never sell or buy authorship. This is something that is unethical and very bad for academia.
Here is a screenshot:
I would not disclose the name of the person. But there are some people like that on LinkedIn, trying to earn money in that way…
This was just a short blog post to talk about this briefly.
