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I feel like I got screwed over by my PI? No name on publication

I am an undergraduate student working under a PI in a research laboratory. My PI pushed out a paper very recently, and I was not mentioned as an author. My PI did not even notify me that he was going ...
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Do single-author papers actually further scientific progress?

I have just submitted revisions for my first single-author paper, and it was awful (pronounced with all the exaggerated fervor of a whiny millenial). Nothing triggers feelings of inadequacy and self-...
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Can I ask for authorship/acknowledgement for writing small data analysis program for a large study?

Earlier this year I entered into a high-profile molecular biology lab and started doing wet lab work (I am an undergraduate). Knowing that I have a computational background, my PI asked that I also ...
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Can PhD students publish papers as sole author without including their supervisor?

If the supervisor does not actually write anything for or contribute to the paper, can a PhD student submit the paper as a single Author? Would this be a faux pas and cause a strained relationship ...
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Compiling ethical standards for coauthorship across academic fields and regions

One of the hot-button issues on this site is standards for coauthorship, especially variants of the question "Must I automatically include my thesis advisor as a coauthor on all my papers?" Since ...
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How do we prevent a professor from releasing our class project as his own research?

I don't want to release too many details in this inquiry, but I do have a very legitimate question to ask. My senior class (aerospace engineering) has been hard at work for nearly nine months reverse ...
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Why are all authors credited equally with authorship regardless of level of contribution?

Normally, the credit of a scientific paper is equally distributed among authors. In the real world, it is almost impossible to write a paper with equal contributions of all authors. Usually, one ...
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Doubt regarding authorship

One of the master's student is working on a research problem. I am a PhD student. I have an idea which I proposed to my advisor on the same problem. Now he wants me and the masters student to work on ...
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Authorship with Past and Nearly Absent Supervisor

Inspired by the following question: Co-authorship for not very involved supervisor I have got to ask a slightly different question: I have a past supervisor while I did my masters and she wasn't ...
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Standard way to specify roles in authorship

This question is not really about who can be considered a coauthor of a given journal paper —or maybe it is, after all— but rather about how to specify the different roles, levels of implication or ...
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Can a PI take someone's idea

Lets say a member of a lab has an entirely theoretical idea like "wouldn't it be nice if we wrote software that does X?" The member did give a talk showing how such code would work if implemented. ...
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My co-supervisor wants authorship in a paper he didn't contribute

I have two supervisors, in different countries, one in home institute who sent me as an exchange student to the host institute, where I closely worked with another co-supervisor who significantly ...
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What are the consequences of refusing to grant honorary authorship to a superior?

Recently, I learned about honorary authorships in papers and publications - e.g. the head of an institute or person who secured the financial grants. If you are in an inferior position, like a PhD ...
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Someone gave a talk proposing the idea; Should they be an author?

I recently started working independently on a project that another student (who graduated) proposed about a year ago. Should I offer to include them as an author? Only if they plan to contribute ...
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Is the invited author of an editorial always the first author, even if their co-author wrote the whole thing?

I've recently had an experience where I wrote an editorial at the behest of a distant colleague. He was invited to write it by a journal and asked that I do so with him (for him actually). Is it ...
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