... Some studies address general obstacles and challenges (e.g., Fleischman and Schuele, 2009;Muriithi et al., 2018;Faraji et al., 2022;Wang et al., 2024), while others focus on more specific authorshiprelated issues, such as hyperauthorship (e.g., Birnholtz, 2006), guest, honorary, gift authorship (O'Brien et al., 2009;Macfarlane, 2017;Khezr and Mohan, 2022), and ghost authorship (e.g., Shaw and Elger, 2017). Additionally, the concept of free-riding has been explored in various fields, including economics (e.g., Hampton, 1987;Fontaine, 2014), political elections (Olson Jr, 1971), international military alliances such as NATO (Fuhrmann, 2020), climate change agreements (Nordhaus, 2015), external auditing (Steller and Pummerer, 2023), and peerassessed team tasks among students (Hall and Buzwell, 2013). ...