Timeline for What is the etiquette for repeatedly emailing questions to an author whose work I'm building on?
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| Oct 5, 2014 at 23:08 | answer | added | Brian Borchers | timeline score: 11 | |
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| Aug 25, 2014 at 16:44 | answer | added | Davidmh | timeline score: 32 | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 16:33 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Miguel I have never heard the phrase "authorship" used in the context of academic papers to mean anything other than "having one's name in the list of authors." | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 16:31 | comment | added | Miguel | @DavidRicherby Only if by authorship you understand "having one's name on a paper" rather than "having contributed to a paper". I understand being an author and being credited as an author as different things. | |
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| Aug 25, 2014 at 15:28 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Miguel In that case, you don't mean "offer him co-authorship". You mean "offer to collaborate with him on a paper." | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 15:23 | comment | added | Willie Wong | Putting myself in the shoe of the programmer: On a bad day (daughter wet the bed, dog bit his leg, wife accidentally dropped coffee in his lap, just to start) even the second e-mail will be two too-many. On a good day (just finished a project and got a raise, daughter graduated from kindergarten with top marks) perhaps even 10 is ok. My point being: there is absolutely no way what any of us say about your second or third question can be of any use to you. As to your first: the most profitable (though not necessarily the nicest) would be to send e-mails until he gets tired of answering... | |
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| Aug 25, 2014 at 14:49 | answer | added | Alexandros | timeline score: 38 | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 14:43 | comment | added | Miguel | @DavidRicherby I don't mean "offer authorship" as simply putting his name on the paper, but as getting him involved with it, preparing the manuscript, etc. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 14:19 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Miguel You should check carefully the conventions for authorship in your field before offering anyone co-authorship. Contributing background understanding is not normally considered enough for co-authorship. E.g., suppose that you write paper Y that extends my paper X. In my area, if all I did was explain X to you and answer your questions about it, I would not expect to be a co-author of Y because I didn't do any of the work in that paper (an acknowledgment would be reasonable). The extreme version is that you don't give co-authorship to your primary school teacher who taught you arithmetic. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 13:54 | comment | added | M R R | good approach , thanks, But I am far away of writing paper and I started thesis for not a long time to become ready to write paper. But I will set a plan based on you idea for future | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 13:51 | comment | added | Miguel | If you are writing a paper you could offer him coauthorship, which might serve to i) compensate his time spending and ii) motivate him to write back to you. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 13:48 | history | asked | M R R | CC BY-SA 3.0 |