As promised from a previous blog post. I have been involved directly or indirectly in several academic papers where there was considerable unhappiness and acrimony over authorship, especially who should get first, last and corresponding author positions. Wikipedia actually has quite an informative article about academic authorship, including the potentially controversial area of authorship order in […]
Over the past year alone, I remember at least 3 separate occasions where various colleagues and I had discussed pooling data and otherwise complementary research results in order to put together a single, more comprehensive scientific story. What convinced people to collaborate was the chance to publish the work in a “journal with a higher […]
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