SFI CASA´s Vegard Aune Became an Involuntary Co-author

The following is an excerpt.

In March 2020, Associate Professor Vegard Aune at SFI CASA received a notice that he had published a new article. «I recognized neither the authors, the content, nor the study itself», he says to the magazine Forskerforum.
Two young men studying a test specimen in a mechanical lab
Associate professor Vegard Aune at SIMLab is an expert on the behaviour of materials and structures subjected to blast loadings. Here he is with one of his MSc students from 2020, Jørgen Sørbøl, in the shock tube facilities. (Photo: Sølvi W. Normannsen

 

After many rounds of contacting the involved parties to have his name removed, Aune found that this was trickier than assumed. First in September the publisher included a corrigendum, but the article is still available online with an incorrect author list.
«It’s sad, … one can ask whether there is too much pressure on publishing and peer reviews, and whether quality is being sacrificed» he says to the magazine Forskerforum.

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