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Tagged with reputation authorship
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Should I refuse to be named as co-author of a low quality paper?
During my bachelor I did a research internship in another country for a few months and contributed to a research project which is now, a few years later, going to be published. The research is in a ...
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Avoiding publishing in a particular journal without bringing up politics
As part of the PhD programme I am enrolled in, we're encouraged to publish a review paper within our first two years. After talking to my advisors, a suitable topic related to the area was agreed and ...
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Is publishing papers with many co-authors detrimental to one's academic career?
I’m looking at some friends’ works, at good labs, in good schools, but some of their publications have 10 co-authors – I even found one with 15 co-authors.
I’m sure the lab and its PI(s) are doing ...
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How damaging is it to have been a co-author of a retracted paper?
Many years ago, when I was very new to the world of scientific paper publishing, I was a co-author to a paper that was subsequently retracted after an investigation of the findings. This was before I ...
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Authorship and reputation for British/Australian academic systems
I have recently been offered a position for a "postdoc" (fixed term level A position) in Australia.
In the British/Australian (and European) academic systems, career progression is very different ...
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How important is primary authorship in judging someone's research contributions?
I wanted to know how the research profile of a doctoral student or a post-doc is usually judged in academia. In the list of peer-reviewed conference or journal publications, how crucial is the ...
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