Questions tagged [authorship]
Queries related to academic authorship, i.e., who should be an author, the order of authors, or special roles such as corresponding authorship.
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How to handle a missing author on an ECCV paper submission after the deadline?
We recently submitted a paper to ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision), but realized after the submission deadline that one of our significant contributors was accidentally omitted from the ...
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Single author or joint paper with a famous author?
A postdoc X is in the early career phase (< 6 years after PhD) in a field that needs lots of publications. X is working in a group whose leader is very famous in a slightly different but still ...
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Co-authors with little contribution
A paper I worked on with my supervisor previously just got submitted for publication. But I’m not really happy. One of the guys my supervisor brought in during preparation for the submission didn’t ...
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Seeking Advice on Authorship Dispute [duplicate]
My supervisor, who had no contribution to my thesis work, instructed me to write a paper from it for clearance. I provided a draft, but he submitted it to a conference with himself as the first author ...
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Severely underperforming during my internship. How do I tell my PI that I want to do more to get a first authored poster at least? Or, am I unfit?
I'm a soon to be a 4.5 year Ph.D candidate (ABD) in Experimental Psychology. A few weeks ago, I started an internship at a nationally recognized hospital in central Ohio (for the summer) that took 9/...
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How to Ask a Top Professor to Co-Author a Paper with Me?
I am currently working on a research project that I believe has significant potential. I have identified a top professor in my field whose expertise aligns perfectly with my research topic. I would ...
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Student dishartened by joint first authorship (unrightfully) requested by collaborator - what to do?
Clinical collaborator has collected samples of different body sites, performed assays using blood samples and collected metadata for all subjects. Our lab and collaborator's lab has PhD students. Our ...
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Co-author conflict regarding paper submission to conference
My paper was first submitted to a conference but after some time, we had to resubmit to another conference. My coauthor was against resubmitting to that particular conference for political reasons.
We ...
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Determining first authorship for a shared project
There is a project (STEM field, R1 university in the United States) on which four graduate students have been working for approximately one year. Although all members joined the project at the same ...
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Should a researcher be included as author if they contributed significantly to a project?
I have a question about authorship. I am coming from a humanistic field (music) in which researchers don't usually have research teams, so probably team-based publication practices have not entered ...
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Should I ask for authorship or ignore?
I completed my post-graduation and published some review papers in reputable journals. One of the professors from my institution contacted me to work on his students' papers. I gave each paper a ...
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Who has the final say in making revisions to a manuscript after it has been returned by reviewers?
You wrote a paper as first author and submitted to a journal. Months later, you get the paper back with suggested revisions from reviewers. One of your much more senior and accomplished co-authors ...
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Must I co-author with supervisors as an undergraduate?
I'm a final-year undergraduate student in the U.K. As part of my undergraduate research, I proved a long-standing conjecture in graph theory. I have now written a detailed proof of the result, which ...
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What does last authorship mean in various fields? [duplicate]
Author order has been discussed extensively on this site, e.g. here, but these typically focus on the first author. I'm curious as to the meaning of the last author in various fields.
In (theoretical,...
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Authorship issue between two PhD students
I have a little dispute over co-authorship on a paper, and I would appreciate feedback on whether I am handling this appropriately (or if I am being an asshole or not).
I am a PhD student in applied ...
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