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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Is it ethical to publish my own idea when ex-colleagues also wanted to work on it, and how do I make it clear which parts are my own contributions?
Context: Some years ago I collaborated on a paper, with my advisor and another grad student (first author), in which we would include
a certain competitive machine learning algorithm and
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Authorship disagreement between PhD student and supervisor
I completed my PhD thesis two years ago. My thesis subject was supported as a project by my university scientific research committee. In this project my supervisor was principal investigator and I was ...
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A standard form for declaration of authorship shares inside an author collective
I need a formal agreement from co-authors of our publication describing their individual authorship contribution. In other words, I need a form (signed by all authors) that state the contribution in ...
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Credit for co-first authorship in Chinese academia
I heard that in Chinese academia, you would not get credit for a co-first-author paper if you are not listed as the first co-first author. Is this true? If so, why non-first co-first authors can't get ...
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Exchange administrator requesting author order change in exchange student work. Is there an easy way out?
We are currently hosting in our labs an international postgraduate student on a 12-month exchange visit. We have had students from the same university before without any issues.
We have completed ...
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etiquette/rules regarding acknowledgements and co-authoring of papers?
I have never published a paper before but I am wondering in the case of a collaboration, how this collaboration should be acknowledged to the reader in different situations.
Specifically, I am ...
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Public co-authorship dataset/API?
I'm applying to grad school (Fall 2018) and am searching for Professors in a specific Computer Science field that I'm interested in who work at universities relatively close to where I currently live.
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How can I list the ORCIDs of all my coauthors?
How can I list the ORCIDs of all the co-authors on all the publications I co-authored? Assume that I don't want to do the list myself manually.
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Problems with my boss in academia: who to ask for some advice in Austria?
I have some problems with my boss at a university.
The problem does not only include cooperative aspects. It also involves some problems related to a post-doc project that I developed and that I gave ...
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How do I cite the authors of a web page that is maintained by Google and other contributors (APA style)?
I have to cite a web page in my thesis and I am unsure how to do it. Unfortunately, I could not find anything helpful for my specific problem.
The website is maintained by Google, but Google also ...
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Ethicality of submitting a manuscript without a peer's name on it if they didn't contribute and you didn't pursue their edits?
I work at a very large institution with multidisciplinary faculty and staff, and I was acquainted with someone (we'll call him Dr. StackExchange) by a close friend of mine for a collaboration prospect,...
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Shared credit for independent discoveries
I've always wondered how credit for scientific discoveries is attributed. Take this example from Wikipedia:
The Merkle–Damgård construction was described in Ralph Merkle's Ph.D. thesis in 1979. Ralph ...
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When you're collaborating with another group, how do you decide which one is the first author of the paper?
Say, A and B are two PhD students working on the same project, and C is their supervisor. D and E are two students working on a similar project to A and B's, and F is D and E's supervisor. The other ...
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My adviser submitted an abstract to a conference that we submitted elsewhere before but changed the authors orders
About two months ago me and my adviser attended a conference, where he had a talk about my PhD project. For this talk, he submitted an abstract, where I was the first author and he was the second one. ...
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Does being the first author really matter in manuscript publication?
I was applying for a research position in a very well known institute in the world yesterday (infectious disease). I have currently published 4 papers in journals and 1 more has already been accepted. ...
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