Timeline for I wrote the whole paper, but did only a very small part of the research. PhD student wants to be first author, but didn't write. Is this okay?
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| Mar 11, 2017 at 19:55 | comment | added | Benjamin Horowitz | In my field (physics), the actual writing of the paper is a fairly small fraction of the total work related to the research (<10%). Perhaps the second author played a large role in the original crafting of the experiment/research program (~30%), the PhD student did most of the work to execute it (60%), and you did most of the work to write it up (~10%)? In this scenario the authorship list makes a fair amount of sense in terms of time. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 18:23 | answer | added | Fred Douglis | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 18:29 | vote | accept | Marcie | ||
| Oct 10, 2016 at 18:28 | vote | accept | Marcie | ||
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| Oct 2, 2016 at 5:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/782459323708481536 | ||
| Oct 1, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | Karl | What did you actually do? Did you take a data dump and really for the first time analysed it, compared the results to literature values, and drew the conclusions? Or did that PhD provide you with the results and conclusion, a stucture for the paper, and an extensive literature list? | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 13:37 | comment | added | Karl | I guess your mentor is under external pressure to put that other guy on place two. Anyway, unless the journal has some editorial space under the paper where they say who did what (rare), it doesn't make much difference: Everybody assumes that the first name did the scientific work, last name is his boss, and everyone else was involved in some way. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 2:34 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 1:09 | history | edited | Marcie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2016 at 1:01 | history | asked | Marcie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |