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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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I am the fifth author on a paper, but I contributed more than the fourth author. What to do?

Going forward at this stage in your career, beyond first author papers, the most important thing will be being included on as many papers as possible, and for that the order won't matter. What will ma …
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Can co-authors disagree in their own paper?

Yes, but I guess that this would usually set the tone of the paper, i.e. the paper would focus on a debate between the co-authors. For instance: https://www.nature.com/news/does-evolutionary-theory-n …
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Author affiliation for co-authors not currently affiliated with an academic institute

Similar questions have been asked here a number of times. I am raising it again to stress some specific issues that the previous threads have not resolved in my opinion. The question is simply, what s …
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Dead author ethical guidelines

One of my close collaborators passed away last year and since then I have become curious about the question of attributing work to deceased authors. Each journal has its rules but there doesn't seem t …
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