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- From: scollnik@acs.ucalgary.ca (David Peter Michael Scollnik)
- Subject: Re: co-authorship (was Re: Dr. Fabrikant and honesty in science)
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- In article <21226@optima.cs.arizona.edu> debray@cs.arizona.edu
- (Saumya K. Debray) writes:
- >
- >I agree with Dov. In my opinion, one has to make "significant technical
- >contributions" to a paper to get co-authorship. Monetary support and minor
- >technical contributions should be mentioned under "Acknowledgements",
- >along the lines of "This work was supported by ..." or "This paper has
- >benefited from discussions with ..."
- >
- >When I was a grad student, my advisor appeared as co-author on those papers
- >where he helped significantly with the ideas (e.g., suggested better
- >algorithms). On papers where his participation was limited to, say,
- >discussing proofs, he didn't appear as co-author, but was thanked under
- >"Acknowldegements". Both he and I were comfortable with this arrangement,
- >and I respect him greatly for his integrity.
- >
- >I follow a similar policy with my students and colleagues. I have no
- >problem with my students having single-authored papers: if they've put
- >in the work they deserve the credit, and it's something I can be proud
- >of as an advisor. On more than one occasion, I've withdrawn my name from
- >authorship of papers where I felt I hadn't made enough of a contribution.
-
- First of all , I agree with you entirely. However, what about
- those instances in which a student is attempting to publish an
- outstanding result, yet one sufficiently controversial or within
- some area of research currently out of vogue. Although worthy of
- publication, many mainstream journals would reject the article
- out of hand if the student had no 'reputation' or publishing
- record. In these cases, how would you feel about a supervisor
- lending his name for co-authorship in order to increase the
- chances of publication ?
-
-
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- David P.M. Scollnik
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics MS 590
- University of Calgary (403) 220 7677
- scollnik@acs.ucalgary.ca
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