Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ...
by Cyph0n on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:30AM
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Explicit tagging is the best option, yes, but contribution-based is significantly better than just alphabetical.
Typically, the first author did most of the intellectual work. Rarely if ever would the first author be a person who did a lot of practical work but little to no intellectual work.
Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ...
by IanCal on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:32AM
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I agree it's largely better than nothing, though there was that paper recently that got pulled because the authors couldn't agree on the ordering of the names.
Typically, the first author did most of the intellectual work. Rarely if ever would the first author be a person who did a lot of practical work but little to no intellectual work.