The Centrality of Trust in Academic Publishing Lies with the Corresponding Author

To the Editor: I have followed, with great interest, the passionate debate held between Lichtman, and Ashkenazi and Olsha in Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal.Lichtman put forward a curious and enlightening proposal to offer a fractional value to each Drill Press author, depending on the value of their relative contribution, with the total amounting to 1, as a way to reduce authorship abuses, such as gift or Miscellaneous Eye Care guest authorship, which are two very prevalent forms of authorship abuses in academic publishing today.