NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/sci/research/1037

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From: [e-mail] (Brian Duke)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Re: Dr. Fabrikant and honesty in science
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Date: 2 Sep 92 15:17:49 +0900
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This is proving to be a most interesting thread. Some recent postings giving
the "rules" for medical journals hit the nail on the head. I want to
introduce a different problem I have. It is quite common for our final year
B Sc students to do a small research problem. Often they start something off
which is then finished by me or by me and a collaborator from elsewhere or
by a graduate student. Their contribution is often relatively small as more
is done after the end of their project than during it. The same also holds
for students doing the Australian Honours year [B Sc(Hons) is a 4th year
after the 3 year B Sc, and consists in our case of 75% research and 25%
courses.

Do we include their names or not? If we do not, as the rules might suggest,
it smacks of a senior person doing down a junior. If we do, we might be
including someone who can not take responsibility for the whole paper. I
include them. They need encouragement and I should not put them down. I try
to get them involved as much as possible in the writing of the paper, although
by then they have often graduated and left the university.

What do others suggest?
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                  Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke)
School of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Northern Territory University
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