How to manage co-authorship on papers.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Co-authorship on scientific papers needs to be carefully managed, don't be fooled by seemingly clear authorship criteria. Have you heard of opt-in and opt-out coauthorship? What are costs and benefits of coauthors? What about author position (first author, senior author, corresponding author)? #authorship #publishing #academia #phdlife #academicsuccess
0:00 Authorship: not as straightforward as it seems
0:48 Overview of topics covered
1:13 Costs and benefits of having co-authors
6:35 Inviting co-authors: opt-in and and opt-out
8:57 Authorship position: an important consideration
11:55 Communicate!
12:32 Finish!
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Do you have any questions on authorship on papers? Please let me know here in the comments! :)
Thank you for your useful video about co-authorship. Regarding your comment about PhD students not being corresponding authors, recently I had a student in one of my courses who queried why PhD students cannot be the corresponding author of their first-authored papers. She argued that it would be difficult to be invited as a reviewer (a critical part of becoming a researcher) by an editor when only the PIs email address is listed on her paper. And she also pointed out that an editor can easily find a PIs email address on their Institutional website/personal website, etc., but that option is not always available in the case of a PhD student. Personally, I think the decision on whether to allow a PhD student to be a corresponding author should be based on whether the student plans to continue to do research after graduating. And without their email address on their paper, it could also be stifling potential job/collaboration opportunities, especially if the relationship between a student and PI is not great. Perhaps you could clarify your thoughts on this matter in a new video?
Hi Martin, thanks for watching and for writing this comment. This is actually an interesting point. There is certainly no overall rule about corresponding authorship for PhD students, and everybody can make their own decisions on this; it is just what we do in my lab. Personally, I find that this is not that important a decision, and we do this mainly for practical reasons (since my email stays stable for a long time, for example; also open-access reimbursement rules are based on corresponding authors, which sometimes plays a role after people have moved on), and maybe strategic reasons (since correspondence during the review process is then with me). But I could easily be convinced otherwise....
On the point regarding the relationship not being great, that is indeed a serious issue, and I think not being corresponding author is then the least of the problems.
Great video!
Is the author in the middle being considered contributes the least? Do you think the author before the last author values as a sort of co-senior author? Thank you!
Thanks! You can share author roles, like you can have co-senior or corresponding authorship and declare them as such. Yes, author positions in the middle (at least in longer lists) signal a less prominent level of contribution.
Thank you. It was quite helpful. And what if we started to write a paper and want to decide whom to invite as a co-author? Do we still need to ask the pi opinion about that?
You can really decide to bring on co-authors at any point of the writing. People can be involved from the very beginning, if they were involved in the conceptualization or planning, or they might join later, for example when help with statistics is needed, etc. And yes, in either case (early in the writing or later) it would be helpful to ask your PI what they think of this.
@@mrillig Thanks for your answer.
Is it good thing in my CV to be a collaborator in papers? or it's useless?..... Especially I am preparing for USMLE.
Listing a contribution other than authorship on papers in a cv is generally not helpful. You would just list whatever you did under your skills in your cv, without mentioning that you were acknowledged (or so) in a paper.
Thank You Sir@@mrillig ❤