Queries related to academic authorship of journal articles, books, and other original scholarly works and claimed by those making intellectual contributions to the work.
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Does “corresponding author” carry an implied meaning?
After reading the question Mentor trying to be first author?, I got the impression that (at least in the writers' field) the "corresponding author" flag could carry an implied meaning, such as "did ...
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Mentor trying to be first author?
I was on an internship with professor A at University B in China. We were working on a computer science project. During the internship I implemented professor A's idea and got some results. Three ...
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Alphabetical Order for Authors in Computer Science
I was wondering, in the field of Computer Science, if there is a convention for acknowledging that author ordering for an academic paper is by alphabetical order, not contribution.
I know that in CS, ...
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How to phrase authors' contributions when the convention is that all team members are authors?
The question
When a journal (such as one of the Nature family) asks for information about authors' contributions, what is the most effective way to answer this, to ensure that the co-authorship is ...
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Researcher with the same name in a different field
I would like to get some advice on what may or may not be a problem, namely the lack of unique identifiers for scientific authors.
So there is a researcher with the same first and last name as ...
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Negotiating with journal publishers about intellectual property of the paper?
One of my colleagues told me authors after acceptance can negotiate about the intellectual property (IP) rights. It is frustrating to wait for peer review long times, and after acceptance publisher ...
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Author Ambiguity in PubMed Search
Given a (rather large) list of authors, what is the best way to find the number of publications by each author? The big problem here is author ambiguity (which John Smith, etc.) - the author list we ...
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If I publish under a pseudonym, can I still take credit for my work?
Is it possible to publish under a nom de plume (pen name, pseudonym)?
... and still take credit for the work?
I may have a chance to publish with the professor I am working with soon and if I am on ...
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Article “communicated by”
What does it mean when it says under a journal article that it has been communicated by "XYZ" where XYZ is not the author but some other scholar with a very strong reputation ? What is the ...
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Doubt regarding authorship
One of the master's student is working on a research problem. I am a PhD student. I have an idea which I proposed to my advisor on the same problem. Now he wants me and the masters student to work on ...
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What are potential downsides of (universal) author IDs pushed for by publishers etc.?
In recent years, several organizations (publishers, arXiv, universities) started pushing for systems of a reliable author identification, gaining considerable traction with the recent launch of ORCID. ...
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Practical implications of noting “equally contributing authors”
I was recently reading a paper on which the author list had an interesting twist: both the first and second author had an asterisk next to their name, with the footnote "these authors contributed ...
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When does a paid research assistant become a co-author?
What amount of work should a well compensated research assistant put into a paper before they're included as a co-author? Is there any norm? Suppose this is a field where 1 to 3 authors on any given ...
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Is pseudonymous publication ethical?
From this MathOverflow question:
William Sealy Gosset published a result under the pseudonym Student. (Because his employer, the Guinness brewing company, did not allow their employees to publish ...
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Referring to previous work “by the authors”
Let's consider two papers, one by authors A1, A2, A3 and one by authors B1, B2, B3. In the case of two publications by the same research group, some of the authors may be the same, some may be new… ...
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How should I credit co-authors of a paper in conference proceedings I prepared myself?
Suppose I've done some research as part of a (small) group, and this research has been published as a paper with all group members listed as co-authors. Then I go to give a presentation on this ...
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Who all are considered authors of papers written on behalf of a research group?
In epidemiology it is not uncommon to see papers written by a bunch of authors on behalf of a research group (say "the X research group"). See, for example, this paper (randomly chosen from pubmed):
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Researcher ID - is there non-commercial alternative?
Identifying uniquely a researcher as author of a publication is important. There is a commercial effort to create researcher ID for every researcher. It is not likely to succeed if it is not multiple ...
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E-mail address to use in publications
It is customary to use one's academic e-mail address as contact address in publications; I have seen once or twice an @gmail.com address being used instead, but it simply looked unprofessional.
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How should a PhD student approach a collaboration?
I'm a PhD student at a top-ten university in the UK. I'm just starting the second year of my social science doctorate. I'm way 'ahead' of where I should be at the moment in terms of words written, ...
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What does first authorship really mean?
In my field (theoretical computer science), authors of any paper are always listed alphabetically; our papers don't have "first authors". (Well... hardly ever.) In most other disciplines, at least ...
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What references must be acknowledged in a paper?
This question came up from a discussion on meta.MSE.
My question is:
Do we need to search MSE (or blogs, math forums, ...) to make sure someone hasn't already proven a result when writing a ...
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If someone provided you with data does he become a co-author?
Say I'm doing some work which is closely related to someone's else's work. I want to study the same data that he studied. I know him well, and producing the data is no big deal but is time consuming, ...
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Should I include publications where I am a “team member” in my CV
Related to but different from Should I include a publication where I'm only acknowledged (and not one of the authors) in my CV?
I'm a part of some publications which officially are written by ...
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When is it appropriate for a post-doc/grad student to be the senior author?
This is slightly different from Order of authors on publications. Our group has debated when would it be appropriate for a student or a post-doc to be considered the senior ie. the corresponding ...
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Should undergraduate students be included on papers containing data they collected?
Assume one or more undergraduate students are given a topic by an academic supervsior to use for their undergraduate honors thesis. The task is designed, programmed and set-up by the supervisor, who ...
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Alphabetical author list in non-alphabetical journal
(A followup for this question)
Say your field's convention is to have alphabetical-ordered author list. What should you do when your work is accepted to a (multidisciplinary) journal in which the ...
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Order of authors on publications
When you look at a paper, what order to you assume the authors are in? Most important/most work done first or alphabetical? In my group we usually use alphabetic order, but I've been wondering if that ...
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Changing mailing and e-mail addresses as corresponding author--which to include?
I finished my undergrad last year and have since been working in the private sector. I'm about to submit a paper with my senior thesis results. Two questions about corresponding author information:
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