Timeline for How do I handle a "fake" co-author?
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| Feb 3, 2020 at 5:52 | comment | added | nitro2k01 | @Zenon Imo, the interpretation of fake news is not that the "news" (the act of reporting) doesn't exist, but that the events reported don't. You could make a case that fake applies in this case, as you did, but if fake has connotations of the author not existing, and this has to be explained to a significant portion of people, the choice of word is arguably poor and could be improved. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | Flyto | " I have no idea what my advisor's motivation for this is.". Have you asked your advisor? | |
| Feb 1, 2020 at 12:01 | history | protected | Massimo Ortolano | ||
| Jan 31, 2020 at 22:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 31, 2020 at 22:13 | comment | added | user1482 | Re your concern about dilution of your contribution, customs vary according to the field of study. Without knowing your field, it's impossible to say whether including your advisor is reasonable. In no field is it reasonable to include this incompetent third person. But how to deal with that is an issue that is specific to your personal situation. Questions on stackexchange are supposed to be applicable to other people, not just to the person asking the question. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 22:06 | answer | added | tgm1024--Monica was mistreated | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 19:55 | comment | added | Buffy | @owjburnham, but the OP described it as "courtesy" co-authorship, which isn't really the same thing. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 18:15 | answer | added | XavierStuvw | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | owjburnham | @Buffy That, at least, is fairly standard in some fields (chemistry, for example). The PI does the grant-writing and contributes to the initial design and later development of the project, while the PhD student or postdoc does the lab work, the (bulk of the?) analysis, and also contributes to the development of the project. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 17:55 | answer | added | msouth | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 15:38 | answer | added | Cliff AB | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 15:37 | answer | added | 123 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 15:36 | comment | added | T. Sar | @puppetsock I'm not sure of diversity is the main reason. The cases I stumbled upon were more often than not because there was money involved in some manner. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 15:23 | comment | added | JS Lavertu | @puppetsock What do you base that guess on? | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 14:34 | comment | added | puppetsock | @T.Sar-ReinstateMonica I have a guess. And my guess is, diversity. To the OP: Is this other author "diverse?" | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 13:21 | answer | added | camelccc | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 12:05 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Question is: sometimes STEM-trained academics look down on academics from humanities, whose way of expressing themselves appears less formal, but one should not underestimate it: sometimes, they have something to say that is not immediately visible to more formally trained academics. Is the colleague from a different faculty? | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 11:03 | comment | added | T. Sar | It is saddening how often situations like this come up in academia in general. I wonder when we stopped caring about science to put our heads so far up into political games... | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 8:31 | comment | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | Why not just ask the adviser about the situation? You probably want to have the kind of relationship with them anyway where they mentor you through exactly these kinds of issues! | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 7:30 | answer | added | usr1234567 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 7:18 | comment | added | Syafiq Zaidi | Semantically, fake author could referred as ghost author, or perhaps sleeping co-author, those who doesn't contribute anything but their name included in paper. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1223123906841608193 | ||
| Jan 31, 2020 at 5:39 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 31, 2020 at 5:05 | comment | added | Zenon | I disagree with your interpretation of "fake" @Coder. We don't call "fake news" as such because it doesn't exist, but rather because it fails to meet the criteria of good/real news. The same thinking could be applied in this case. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 4:38 | comment | added | Coder | How does the word "fake" apply here? Fake would mean the person doesn't exist. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 3:10 | comment | added | Dan Romik | Can you clarify if the “advisor” refers to your PhD advisor (more correctly now thought of as your former advisor), or to your supervisor in your current postdoc position? | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 2:35 | answer | added | Erwan | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 22:03 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 50 | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 21:54 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | I presume your advisor secured funding for this work by writing some sort of research proposal? Which presumably contains important problems and novel ideas how to solve them? If this is true, can you clarify whether you used any of these pre-existing ideas, or indeed did all the work, including formulation of the problem and choice of methodology? | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 21:52 | answer | added | Allure | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 21:45 | comment | added | Buffy | If you did the work, why is your advisor going to be on the paper? That was your first mistake, perhaps. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 21:39 | history | edited | anonymous | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2020 at 21:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 30, 2020 at 21:28 | history | asked | anonymous | CC BY-SA 4.0 |