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PRIETO ACOSTA, Diana Elena. Intellectual attribution in Cuban medical journals. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2019, vol.30, n.1  Epub 30-Jun-2019. ISSN 2307-2113.

Acknowledgment of the authorship of arguments in medical writing affects science imperatives such as accuracy and transparency, reproducibility and legal responsibility. The purpose of the study was to describe its behavior in Cuban medical journals certified as scientific by CITMA. To achieve this end, a qualitative analysis was conducted of a sample of 50 Discusión (Discussion) sections dealing with original research papers published from 2007 to 2011. Data were collected onto coding sheets and analyzed within the theoretical framework of pragmalinguistics and science rhetoric. 5% of the statements were found to contain unequivocal intellectual attribution to the author of the text, made manifest by the referential use of the grammatical person; 25% of the statements were attributed to specific third persons by bibliographic references, and in 70% of the statements attribution was ambiguous (47% attributable to non-specified third persons and 23% in which the possible conceptualizer is the scientific community). In conclusion, self-ascription of arguments by the speaker, preferably through the use of the first grammatical person, makes it possible to distinguish personal judgment from inter-subjective arrangement, since authorship of a paper does not presuppose the authorship of all the arguments therein included. The high proportion of statements issued by their authors without intellectual attribution or by ambiguous means, despite the high degree of textual specialization, deserves further research and editorial attention.

Palavras-chave : Linguistic attenuation; propositional conceptualization; science rhetoric; scientific methodology.

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