Timeline for Compiling ethical standards for coauthorship across academic fields and regions
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 12:03 | comment | added | Oswald Veblen | @Michael Zieve: you are applying it a little too strictly, in my opinion as a mathematician. There can't be a general rule for every collaboration, but if two researchers together work all the way up to the edge of a result, and then one researcher has the final crucial insight, it's hard to say that the other person made no significant contribution to the theorem. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 16:16 | comment | added | Michael Zieve | The boldfaced sentence seems too narrow to me. If I work on a project with someone, then I think they deserve to be a coauthor regardless of whether they wind up making a significant contribution to the content of the final paper. I think coauthorship is warranted because there's an implied contract when people work together that, in exchange for freely sharing their ideas and spending time on the problem, everyone will be a coauthor. Am I interpreting the AMS statement too literally, or worse, am I being unethical? I thought something like this occurred for the Taylor-Wiles paper. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 18:51 | history | edited | Nate Eldredge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 13, 2014 at 18:25 | history | answered | Pete L. Clark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |