Timeline for Can I ask my advisor to drop authorship for a journal submission?
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 22:55 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @Susan Authorship is not meant to be distributed as a method of repayment. You should definitely not trade authorship on one paper for authorship on another: either someone has contributed at the level of an author and deserves authorship, or they do not. Trading may be more appropriate in the authorship order where order matters, but should not be used in determining the list. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 22:01 | comment | added | Susan | Of course. I also plan to ask her that I can put her in my other two papers (submitting to equally high impact factor journals) as authors to exchange my sole authorship to submit to journal X. I am probably too obsessed with the journal X. Let me sleep on this idea. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 21:53 | comment | added | Buffy | And if she likes the plan, make sure she gets a nice ACK in the paper somewhere. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 21:48 | comment | added | Susan | Thank you! I agree. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 21:47 | comment | added | Buffy | Asking is perfectly ethical. But protect the relationship, I think. Long term thinking is usually best. But present sole authorship as an alternative option, not a done deal. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 21:40 | comment | added | Susan | Thank you for the suggestions. I plan to talk to my advisor over phone today. I was just worried if it is very unethical to even ask her to do this for me, and how asking this violates the authorship standard ? | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 21:36 | comment | added | Buffy | This is the correct action. Let me add that just dropping her and submitting to X will come back to haunt you since she is an editor there. You need to ask her first if that is OK, just to protect the relationship. There will be other (sole author) papers. Journal X can still be in your future. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 21:30 | history | answered | AlbinoRhino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |