Authorship Credit and Funding Acknowledgements as Vulnerabilities in Investigations of Grants Compliance and Foreign Influence | Insights | Ropes & Gray LLP
In published papers, authorship attribution and disclosure of funding support have emerged, oddly and unexpectedly, as elements of government enforcement in the “foreign influence” area. In many situations, in our experience representing universities and other research entities, investigations have been triggered, or ongoing investigations have become more complex and difficult, because of decisions that researchers have made regarding who should serve as an author on peer-reviewed journal articles and