Timeline for Had the idea vs. did the work: Who should be the lead author?
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| Jan 3, 2014 at 13:43 | comment | added | user8458 | @SRobertJames: In some papers where you have 4+ authors, the final author carries the weight of being the "overall supervisor" (or the guy with funding...); eg. I have seen quite a few biomedical papers with 10+ authors. Additionally, I have worked with a group of biologists and their departmental guidelines were that they could use for their "annual progress reports" only papers that authorship number was =<4 or they were first or last authors. (Don't ask me why, I am not working in Life Sciences department.) | |
| Dec 31, 2013 at 12:12 | history | edited | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 31, 2013 at 12:05 | comment | added | SRobertJames | Can you elaborate on what being the "final" author signifies? | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 1:06 | history | answered | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |