Questions tagged [authorship]
Queries related to academic authorship, i.e., who should be an author, the order of authors, or special roles such as corresponding authorship.
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Should I inform a person that I am going to acknowledge him in a paper? [duplicate]
I am collaborating in a multi-authored paper in physics. In one part, I made a mathematical contribution and proved some important theorem.
However, I was not sure whether my proof is quite correct. ...
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Did my professor act unethically by publishing a paper with a figure from my thesis without any acknowledgement?
Title says it all, but for specifics..
Just found out my thesis advisor published a paper last year using a figure from my thesis. The thesis is in embargo until later this year.
I do have be honest ...
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Is it appropriate to discuss authorship while proposing collaboration?
I have a theory that I cannot test myself. A group that doesn't know me has the proprietary data needed to test it, and I think they could test it fairly easily (hours to weeks of work, I think). I ...
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Submitting two articles to the same journal at the same time similar ideas but different surgeries?
I am part of two different labs that are studying very similar things. One is the impact of smoking on elbow or shoulder replacement, and the other is the impact of smoking on wrist replacement.
They ...
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How to politely and diplomatically ask one "half-senior“ coauthor to contribute more?
In our discipline we are equal coauthors ordered alphabetically.
We have one most senior coauthor (advisor) who supplied the idea and edited the manuscript, two junior coauthors who have done most of ...
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Where to add a name which is added by force without contribution in a paper to keep my supervision and contribution?
A few months ago, I asked here a question about a student in our group who claimed the authorship in our paper, because he was planning to work on the same problem that we did. I said that I refused ...
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When a name should be on a paper as an author in computer science?
I am working on using machine learning approaches for medical image analysis. What is the minimum requirement for someone to be added as a co-author in a conference paper?
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Can my supervisor force me to publish my master’s thesis?
I defended my master’s thesis in engineering. My advisor didn't help me much.
Now he wants to publish the thesis as a scientific article. Even if he will write the article, I don't want the project to ...
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Is authorship justified for performing an experiment 7 years ago, which is published? We just used samples from that experiment for a new analysis
7 years ago, a mouse experiment was performed, and samples are still available for further analysis. This mouse experiment is already published with a certain readout. Now, we publish a whole ...
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Is it academically allowed to change authorship when resubmit and equal contribution?
We had a paper rejected where I was the first author. The second author and I almost had the same level of contribution to the paper.
Now we are resubmitting the paper to another journal. However, due ...
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My supervisor is planning to publish a research paper from results and analysis from my thesis without including me as a co-author. What to do? [duplicate]
I have been working on a project for a year, doing all the lab work and gathering all the main data and then I wrote my master thesis on it.
There were some additional data necessary for the final ...
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Problems with my boss in academia: who to ask for some advice in Austria?
I have some problems with my boss at a university.
The problem does not only include cooperative aspects. It also involves some problems related to a post-doc project that I developed and that I gave ...
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Code/package developed by others - citation or co-authorship?
Say in one of my projects, I am using someone elses code in a published paper. The method is novel and therefore I also have some general discussion on how to apply the developed code in GitHub. Am I ...
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How to handle gift authorship?
I am seeking advice for the following situation:
I finished my PhD in microbiology in September 2021, just before I submitted a paper to eLife with me being first author and my PhD advisor as ...
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Coauthors just because advisors, how to deny?
Two advisors of my coauthor for a paper I'm first-authoring were listed few days before final submission. As far as I see, they did not contribute to this paper, nor have even read it.
Sparing my ...
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My research supervisor has asked if he can submit a paper on my work to a journal, should I be named as an author?
My research supervisor has asked me if he can submit a paper on my work to a journal.
I just want to know how that works. Do I get authorship if he is the sole writer of the paper, even though it is ...
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Is it ethical to deny someone co-authorship who had not had the chance to contribute to the text itself?
Since I am a fairly new researcher in the process of building a track record for myself I'd like feedback on whether I behaved correctly in the following situation.
I was part of a small, short-term ...
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Is it ethical to give paper authorship in exchange for financially supporting a research project?
Would it be unethical to earn money by putting people's name in my papers? In a sense, these people would be sponsoring the paper so I believe it is fair to have their names on it.
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Dealing with an exploitative co-author
I have, unfortunately, ended up working with a truly awful co-author on three separate projects. The problem with this co-author is easy to summarise: he contributes almost nothing to the projects, ...
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Does making the second author an equal contributor affect its supervisory role in a 3-author paper?
I am a PhD graduate and I supervised a Master's student in a research work that lead to a publication. The Master student is the first author, then it is me, and then is the name of our advisor. Since ...
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Does it make sense to provide a 'CRediT statement' when I am the sole author?
CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) offers 14 roles that, when enumerated alongside a mult-authored publication, renders individual contributions visible.
Here is a simple example from this paper (...
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Can I mention in my CV a legislative bill that I wrote, but which is also not yet approved or deliberated upon by congress?
I'm applying for a doctoral scholarship, and the scholarships office told me to mention in my CV all my academic and professional research publications/authored works.
Now, I once worked with a ...
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Should a research assistant have the right to use their PIs research (data and ideas) independently?
I recently found out that a research assistant had made unconsulted plans to present, and possibly publish, a paper as a single author on the basis of a study conducted for their principal ...
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Correct acknowledgment for a figure's digital rendering
If I draw a figure freehand, and then ask somebody else to render it digitally, and integrate the resulting product in a publication, what is the correct way of acknowledging this person's work?
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I am an undergrad and I am working with my mentor on a project. However, I did the majority of the experiment. Should I be the first author?
I’m an undergrad researcher at a lab. I started to work with my mentor, a PhD candidate, last year. She was nice at the first, and I learned a lot from her. Quickly, like in 2 weeks after starting my ...
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My MSc advisor assigned me an idea that was already done but, I found new insights, should he be included as a co-author?
My MSc advisor gave me an idea that was already done and was not expecting me to add anything new but I found new insights, he was not convinced, he never helped or gave me motivation but, I continued ...
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Should I include as author of my current paper someone who wrote code that I'm using?
I'm being asked (by my advisors) to include a person I don't even know as author of my new papers, in which they haven't done anything. The reason seems to be that my work is based on source code that ...
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Coauthor wrote a small part of the paper then ghosted us
Me and my coauthor are writing a (math) paper with a third person who initially has been very active, mainly in the form of conversations and planning, and then after writing some parts, disappearead ...
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Appropriate to call editor of journal where my name was removed as author?
Unfortunately, I recently discovered that my name was removed from a published piece which I contributed substantially to (it is available online). I have already asked my co-authors, and all of them ...
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Should I accept authorship in a completely unrelated field? [closed]
I helped a friend with an analysis and this will now be published. The analysis only took me two evenings of work and I saw this as a favour to my friend and told them I didn't need authorship in ...
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My name was omitted from a paper I (mostly) authored - what should I do?
I was recently asked to be tangentially involved in writing a review paper as part of a research group I am involved in. Originally, I was just supposed to review some sections I have particular ...
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Can I sue my advisor due to not giving me authorship
So long story short is that, while I was doing my masters I have worked with a PhD candidate on a paper. I basically developed half of the system and did all the experiments while I was doing my ...
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Second author here. First author doesn’t work on the revision and doesn’t respond
I need advice. I started working on this project as a phd student, my advisor was the first author. It took a really long time for the project to get ready, and now I’m at another institution. While ...
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I am the fifth author on a paper, but I contributed more than the fourth author. What to do?
I have some questions regarding authorship. We are preparing an important biomedical paper with a list of over 10 authors, and the authors are ranked by contribution.
My name comes after someone who I ...
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My supervisor is blocking my major PhD work from being submitted. What should I do?
I have a 14 page draft sitting there for a year now, which I wrote exclusively. For my work I used specific hardware, which my supervisor got me access to so I cannot take his name off the paper. I ...
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Can I publish while doing an internship at a company if I did that research before starting the internship?
I’m currently doing research at my University in Spain, and soon I will leave to do an internship in Germany at a company (one among Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) on a related topic.
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Proper credit when original author left
My company has tasked me with writing a paper to be published on some of our software. The what and why isn't particularly relevant to the story except that it's purely software driven approach. No ...
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What can I do when my coauthors submit a paper which uses our in-progress coauthored work?
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My coauthors and I have been writing a paper together for quite some time. The project has not been the main focus of anyone in the group for the longest time, so it has been going very ...
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Affiliation before starting undergraduate but committed to an institution
A paper I worked on during my gap year between high school and college is getting published. All of the work that went towards this paper was made after finishing high school, and clearly before ...
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What to do when a supervisor withdraws their name from a graduate student's paper?
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Under my mentor's guidance and support, I've been working on a paper that has really bloomed.
It is exciting technically and scientifically - the technology invented and the new findings it ...
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Increase coautorships
I am a PhD student in Economics and I am looking to increase my paper production to be a more competitive candidate on the job market in a couple of years.
So far I have been working on solo projects ...
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How to handle a lack of authorship even though you deserved it? [duplicate]
In Summer 2020, I worked on a research team with 2 colleagues and a supervisor on a ML paper. We (myself and my 2 colleagues) heavily built on some work that the supervisor did in the past to come up ...
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Using data from an old project with a bad collaborator - do I need to loop them in?
I collected data almost a decade ago with a bad collaborator. The collaborator contributed very little and I didn't want to continue the partnership. When data collection was complete, I ran basic ...
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Credit as Undergraduate Researcher PI
(PI: Project Initiator, I get this term from proposal-writing) I am an undergraduate student (and have been off and on over the last 7 [now almost 8] years). I went to a professor at my university ...
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My co-author mispelled my name while submitting an article to the Arxiv yesterday. How do I get this fixed? [closed]
My co-author submitted our paper to arxiv.org yesterday, and they mispelled my name. My name appears correct on the manuscript itself, but incorrectly spelled on the website.
I have claimed authorship ...
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Meta-analysis of previous published dataset - who to include as coauthor?
I recently published a paper, which includes a link to a data repository in which that data is available. Now, with other researchers, we are combining our datasets in a meta-analysis.
I was wondering ...
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Project guide as first author of paper
I'm currently doing my master's degree in earth science or remote sensing at an Indian university. I am working on publishing my master thesis as a paper.
When I talked with my guide/ professor about ...
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Dispute over co-authorship of paper and ownership of concepts and code
I am in a bit of a bind. With institutional background, I've managed to formalize a novel way of approaching a problem. It is not really a groundbreaking thing, but it works, and I've only seen it as ...
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Authorship of a student who published separately without permission
My co-authors and I are preparing to submit a manuscript and have a problem regarding authorship.
Several months ago, a grad student on the project became upset and quit. We just discovered that, ...
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Single first author vs co-first author - what difference does it make?
I have a little dilemma to resolve. I am about to submit the major paper of my current post doc after working for 3 and a half years on this. This was a major collaborative effort involving people ...
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