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Please see the Cochrane Library editorial policy on authorship, subheading 'Authorship problems and disputes'.
Editors may refer to Support resources under Authorship and contributorship in the revised editorial guidance resource.
Authors and editors can consult the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) resources on authorship and contibutorship: https://publicationethics.org/authorship. These include guidelines on how to handle authorship disputes and provide flowcharts to work through some scenarios related to authorship.