Timeline for How to Ask a Top Professor to Co-Author a Paper with Me?
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| Jun 24 at 17:44 | comment | added | Ray | Adding onto what Adam said: if that's what you want them to do, that's not worth a coauthorship, but you should give them a sentence in the acknowledgements if they agree to help. (Note: do not read that as "try bribe them with an acknowledgement".) | |
| Jun 23 at 8:33 | answer | added | Erel Segal-Halevi | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 23 at 2:05 | comment | added | R1NaNo | I think this entire approach is all wrong and it just smells of trying to glean some type of celebrity by affiliation (for lack of better words). If you have a good idea, submit it, it will go to peer review and you will get your answer. If you require further assurance prior to that point, reach out to others in your area for their opinion. Ask a colleague, etc... you don't have to engage and associate with a "top professor" or offer them authorship in order to test the waters with your idea. Have some courage in your own work. | |
| Jun 22 at 17:55 | comment | added | Adam Přenosil | It sounds like what you need is some feedback rather than a co-author. So, the real question you should ask yourself is "how do I get meaningful feedback on my manuscript"? You seem to be assuming that the answer to that question is "by offering them co-authorship" but it really isn't, or rather it needn't be. Regardless of whether you offer anyone co-authorship or not, the main difficulty for you will be getting the professor to read the manuscript in detail in the first place. It's not clear at all that offering co-authorship will increase your chances in this respect. | |
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| Jun 22 at 13:47 | vote | accept | The_old_man | ||
| Jun 22 at 13:47 | comment | added | The_old_man | @MoisheKohan I generally want them to take a look at my new perspective that I have provided in my manuscript. Its a rather innovative one, so it may very well be wrong. I want an expert in the field to have a look at it before I submit the paper. | |
| Jun 22 at 11:36 | comment | added | Manlio | What do you want from this professor? If you want them to work in your project with you, that's quite unlikely to happen. If you want to work with them, find something that they are interested in, and show that you can contribute to the things they care about. For example, if they raised a question in some of their paper, and you research project has a (partial) answer to the question, approach them showing your work. This has higher chances of resulting in a collaboration than a mere "would you like to join my cool project?", which will probably be ignored or maybe even negatively received. | |
| Jun 22 at 10:41 | comment | added | Moishe Kohan | Your question is unclear: Do you already have complete results but want the professor to contribute to writing a paper based on these results, or you need help completing a research project (which could eventually result in a paper), or you simply want to put professor's name on the paper that you are writing? The latter would be a "gift-authorship" and, thus, inappropriate. | |
| Jun 22 at 10:41 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 17 | |
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