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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| Oct 10, 2016 at 18:29 | vote | accept | Marcie | ||
| Oct 10, 2016 at 18:28 | vote | accept | Marcie | ||
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| Oct 1, 2016 at 4:40 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | ... (And, just to add: Even if enthusiastic avout paper-writing, undergrad students typically have no interest in attending a conference in my experience.) | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 4:38 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "Beyond that, there are special considerations for lead authorship." - lastly, while that is indeed the convention, most of that paragraph can probably be ignored in the OP's case. For instance, I have repeatedly supervised Bachelor theses that ended up as papers mainly authored by the Bachelor students (who were thus primary authors), but still I took over all the organizational chores and the coorespondance with the conference chairs in my paid university worktime rather than having an undergrad student without any experience in these matters deal with such issues in their spare time. ... | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 4:31 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "Writing text is a part of that, but scholarship is much bigger than simply writing up results." - true, although it should also be noted that writing text can be quite a bit bigger than writing up results (when it comes to presentation, connection of different parts of design rationales, highlighting the important parts, conveying the appropriate amount of background knowledge, picking the most suitable references for the way a particular argument ends up being worded in the text, etc.). | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 4:25 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "the time to decide these kinds of issues is well in advance of publication, and preferably in advance of doing the work and writing the paper" - that sounds like a good plan, but it should probably be handled in an adaptive way (by deciding about rules for author ordering rather than a concrete order): Over time, I have come to realize that it usually becomes clear who has written most of the paper only after finishing writing. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 2:40 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 1, 2016 at 2:34 | history | answered | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |