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How to balance authorship roles when my contributions are substantial but I am evaluated on last authorship?
I am a senior researcher in computer science, and I am applying for associate professorship positions. The evaluation of my last application was positive overall, except for the concern that I am not ...
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My PhD supervisor was not satisfied with the authorship of the paper from my dissertation
I graduated from an R1 university with a major that could be described as either social science or business. TBH, my committee chair provided significant spiritual support throughout the process, but ...
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Co-author on papers after leaving academia
I used to do research at a major research institution and recently left academia to pursue a corporate job in a pharma company. I helped with some data collection and analysis for a study while in my ...
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How can I politely decline a request to join my project by a free rider professor
I've been working on a project with one of my co-authors. The prep stage is done. We're about to get to the experiment stage. A senior professor in my group, who I know doesn't have the skill for the ...
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How to attribute authorship to personal non-academic friend who made significant contributions
I'm working on a paper which involves the application of a particular equation to sets of experimental materials science data. I devised the idea for the equation and collected/collated the data. With ...
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How to deal with former student requests to be co-author?
I am a fairly new assistant professor in a social science discipline and I've started encountering the situation where students I've supervised at the masters or PhD level finish their dissertations ...
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Accused of violating NDA on thesis [closed]
I received my degree in Mathematics last year and spent my last semester working on my master's thesis. The topic was of interest to a private company, so I joined a project (4 months) partially ...
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Perception of shared authorship in pure mathematics [closed]
Suppose that a paper published on a very good journal has two authors, A and B, and that A is the supervisor of the PhD student B. The paper concerns a research that is not strictly related to the PhD ...
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Does an ORCID alone convey any information?
Do the digits of an ORCID convey any information?
In particular, given two ORCIDs, can I infer anything about the order in which they were created? For example, if two ORCIDs had prefixes 0000-0001-...
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How to politely ask not to be first author on a paper?
A few years ago I did a brief undergraduate research apprenticeship in pure math, where I helped a professor come up with a novel construction, and it's in the works to get published. I think I helped ...
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Is it appropriate to acknowledge your family or even mention them in articles or slideshows?
What if I believe the research we conducted is not only the work of my supervisors or colleagues but also nearly all my family and I would like to acknowledge them in my slideshow or articles writing ...
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Should I list a dual affiliation in publications when incorporating prior independent work into my current full-time research?
I’m currently employed full-time as a researcher, and my institution has asked me to integrate a tool I originally developed during my prior independent consulting/research. The tool was created ...
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How to initial an author's name that contains nobiliary particles and articles
When an author's name contains something like "van der", "de la", etc, and you wish to initial the author's first/middle names (all but surname) in a reference, how do you deal ...
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How should I negotiate authorship roles with Chinese collaborators to ensure fair recognition across different academic cultures?
I am a new lecturer at an Australian university, currently collaborating with Chinese scholars on a research project related to computer vision.
In this collaboration:
The Chinese collaborators ...
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How important is it to avoid a duplicate name?
I am about to publish my first paper in a few months and, as many on this site have already done, I am pondering which name to use. I happen to have multiple surnames, like say Abel Burton Cürtis ...
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Does adding an MIT-licenced package to my research software qualify the author for co-authorship?
I have a research software on GitHub, using an MIT license. I need to include an additional package/library, which is also MIT-licensed, to my software for a new feature to work properly. I do not ...
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Listing Equal Contributors Non-Alphabetically for Fairer Recognition
I'm co-authoring a CS paper with another student. While we both did equal lab work, I wrote about 90% of the paper and did most of the literature review since I’m more fluent in English and generally ...
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Including unpublished quotes in research proposals
Currently, I am writing a research proposal for the purpose of obtaining a one-year grant. The proposal centers around a mathematical algorithm that possibly has applications in oncology. As far as I ...
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How to give credit to a contributor who does not wish to be an author?
In a common (unfinished) paper written several months ago, one of the authors has moved away to a different group and is now working on something completely different. Due to some external reasons, ...
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Authorship for Publishing Master’s Research Paper – First Author vs. Second Author?
My tutor has approached me with an opportunity to publish my master’s dissertation research, which examines the relationship between social media sentiment and cryptocurrency dynamics. I’ve been given ...
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Authorship Order for a Master's Thesis-Based Paper
I am working on a research paper based on my master's thesis, where my supervisor provided the initial idea. However, I conducted all the coding, data analysis, trained the models, and wrote the ...
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How to deal with a co-author that refuses to read a manuscript?
I finished a postdoc and then moved to a different position. At the time of leaving I had a manuscript finished and ready to submit to a good journal. I have two co-authors on the manuscript, one of ...
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Was I right to insist I be listed as a co-author if my contribution was to be included?
I've done most of my research during my Mathematics PhD with a single collaborator who is not my advisor. He has definitely served as a mentor and has been something of an unofficial advisor - even ...
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Who has "decision-authority" about paper content: First author or the co-author with the higher academic rank?
When co-authoring a scientific paper, content-related disagreements often arise (e.g., which sections should be omitted due to space constraints). My question is: Who typically has the final "...
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How to deal with coauthors who just do a lot of unnecessary work and exploration to be seen as hard-working and grab authorship?
I am a post-bachelor researcher in computational biology.
One of my coauthors is a PhD student. He has many ideas, and is seen as independent, innovative, hardworking, and creative. The problem is ...
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Navigating Ethical Dilemmas: Addressing Forced Authorship and Academic Misconduct in Doctoral Research
I am a doctoral student working in a research group with other students who are also my seniors. They are very diligent and have published some commendable papers. However, my advisor frequently ...
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Ethical Concerns of Uninformed Authorship: A Case Study on Student Recognition by Supervisors
Previously, I asked a question and greatly appreciated the responses. Today, I would like to present a more detailed scenario for consideration.
Let’s assume the following situation:
PhD Student A, ...
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Addressing the Impact of Unknown Authorship on PhD. Students’ Academic Reputation and Remedies
As a current PhD. student, I have observed some troubling practices. It is not uncommon for advisors to add students’ names as co-authors on papers resulting from collaborations with other research ...
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Coauthors from previous group trying to "rewrite" paper for my experiment/idea
Last year, 6 months before finishing my contract with my old post-doc group, I came up with an extremely big idea. I took no holidays, and worked 18 hour days for months without taking off weekends to ...
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Data request from former job
I recently transitioned from a research institution where I worked for four years as a postdoctoral researcher on two major projects. One of these projects has been published, and the other is ...
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Adding another author to a paper that hasn’t contributed?
I’m a non traditional postbacc student have been working in a medical clinic for the past 2 years. I have been working on a case report for months. Almost done… just working on the introduction and ...
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How to deal with a very perfectionist supervisor whose projects feel never ending and never get submitted?
I am a postbacc RA with several years of experience. I am paid by the PI's grants and there is no time constraints for the projects.
My supervisor is very nice but extremely perfectionistic, causing ...
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Is it ethical for a PI of a collaborating PhD student to be part of my publication, even if he hasn't contributed anything?
I'm a PhD student in a country in Europe. There is a collaborating PhD student from another institute (in a different country), who has worked closely with my PI (principal investigator) and me. Some ...
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How to publish if the other co-authors do not cooperate (a concern)
I am an ERC, postdoc, I have completed my work and try to publish.
I am afraid my co-authors, one of them is the PI, do not want to publish, due to lack of interest in their part and busy with their ...
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Adding a co-author in the arXiv version of a conference paper
How can I give credit to a co-worker who contributed significantly to our paper after submission, given that the conference won't allow us to add them as a co-author? The entire team, including the ...
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What should I do if I am not able to reproduce the coauthors’ results?
We are doing computational biology research using ML. My coauthor who is a Phd student initially proposed a new idea that he said worked better than the baseline. However, after trying to replicate ...
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Should I apologise to a professor after a gift authorship attempt, which they refused?
(I am a PhD student) I recently worked on a paper using a computational methodology developed by Professor X and my manuscript was published on a preprint server.
My supervisor, Professor Y, is ...
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Should I ask permission from my former PI after finishing my contract when I'm sole author of the paper?
I'm a postdoc and I worked with a PI with whom I had many issues and disagreement. I even went to HR to report him for breaking the law. He told me to write the paper by myself as a single author. ...
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How to handle a missing author on an ECCV paper submission after the deadline?
We recently submitted a paper to ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision), but realized after the submission deadline that one of our significant contributors was omitted from the author list. ...
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Single author or joint paper with a famous author?
A postdoc X is in the early career phase (< 6 years after PhD) in a field that needs lots of publications. X is working in a group whose leader is very famous in a slightly different but still ...
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Co-authors with little contribution
A paper I worked on with my supervisor previously just got submitted for publication. But I’m not really happy. One of the guys my supervisor brought in during preparation for the submission didn’t ...
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Seeking Advice on Authorship Dispute [duplicate]
My supervisor, who had no contribution to my thesis work, instructed me to write a paper from it for clearance. I provided a draft, but he submitted it to a conference with himself as the first author ...
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Severely underperforming during my internship. How do I tell my PI that I want to do more to get a first authored poster at least? Or, am I unfit? [closed]
I'm a soon to be a 4.5 year Ph.D candidate (ABD) in Experimental Psychology. A few weeks ago, I started an internship at a nationally recognized hospital in central Ohio (for the summer) that took 9/...
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How to Ask a Top Professor to Co-Author a Paper with Me?
I am currently working on a research project that I believe has significant potential. I have identified a top professor in my field whose expertise aligns perfectly with my research topic. I would ...
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Student dishartened by joint first authorship (unrightfully) requested by collaborator - what to do?
Clinical collaborator has collected samples of different body sites, performed assays using blood samples and collected metadata for all subjects. Our lab and collaborator's lab has PhD students. Our ...
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Co-author conflict regarding paper submission to conference
My paper was first submitted to a conference but after some time, we had to resubmit to another conference. My coauthor was against resubmitting to that particular conference for political reasons.
We ...
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Determining first authorship for a shared project
There is a project (STEM field, R1 university in the United States) on which four graduate students have been working for approximately one year. Although all members joined the project at the same ...
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Should a researcher be included as author if they contributed significantly to a project?
I have a question about authorship. I am coming from a humanistic field (music) in which researchers don't usually have research teams, so probably team-based publication practices have not entered ...
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Should I ask for authorship or ignore?
I completed my post-graduation and published some review papers in reputable journals. One of the professors from my institution contacted me to work on his students' papers. I gave each paper a ...
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Who has the final say in making revisions to a manuscript after it has been returned by reviewers?
You wrote a paper as first author and submitted to a journal. Months later, you get the paper back with suggested revisions from reviewers. One of your much more senior and accomplished co-authors ...
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