Timeline for Should I become first author of a paper for which I did the statistical analysis?
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| Jan 11, 2017 at 13:24 | vote | accept | a statistician | ||
| Jan 11, 2017 at 10:04 | comment | added | a statistician | There are more authors, but with little contribution | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 5:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/819058954806423552 | ||
| Jan 11, 2017 at 0:32 | answer | added | Fomite | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 21:21 | answer | added | Andres Garcia | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 18:37 | comment | added | AJK | Can you clarify: you say "First author," "Second author" and "Last author." Are there only two of you? Or more? | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 18:16 | answer | added | iayork | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 16:12 | comment | added | cbeleites | Would a Contributions paragraph solve your uneasiness? - it would take care that there is no misrepresentation of what you did/didn't contribute to the paper. Obviously, in a 2 author paper there is no middle author position... | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 13:59 | comment | added | Inde | Agree with Nick. The senior author/grant procurer usually puts their name last - at least in my experience. However, in cases where the only contribution to the project was statistical analyses, I've also seen the statistician receive acknowledgement and not authorship. If you're uncomfortable with being listed as first author, you could always ask for the second option. | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 13:20 | comment | added | Nick S | Note that in medicine, the leading author is typically the last author. By insisting to change the order, you are trying to force the doctor to put you, in his/her fields standards, as the main author of the paper. | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 12:55 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 10, 2017 at 12:50 | history | asked | a statistician | CC BY-SA 3.0 |