Only one of the authors will appear as first author
, in any publication. Every other entry is a secondary entry. However, corresponding authors could be as many as three depending on the multi-disciplinary nature of the article.
Traditionally, co-first authors are indicated by an asterisk and the order of the individuals is the decision of the PI. Once the paper is published, it appears in print as follows: co-Author 1*, co-Author 2*, Author 3, and Author 4.
Shared co-first authorship is defined as
two or more authors who have worked together on a publication and contributed equally
[8]. … Some journals publish articles in which shared coauthorship is described, making it easy to determine author contribution.
The first author should be that person who contributed most to the work
, including writing of the manuscript. The sequence of authors should be determined by the relative overall contributions to the manuscript. It is common practice to have the senior author appear last, sometimes regardless of his or her contribution …
Thus,
the first name in an author list is the most sought-after position
in a scientific publication. … However, sometimes multiple authors may have contributed equally, in which case the order of author names does not matter, and you can inform the journal editor of this.
It’s always good to have another paper
, even if you are second author. A hiring or review committee may ask you to describe your own contribution to the paper. As long as you can do that honestly and point to some substantive contribution to the paper, it will be to your benefit.
Only one of the authors will appear as first author
, in any publication. Every other entry is a secondary entry. However, corresponding authors could be as many as three depending on the multi-disciplinary nature of the article.
Yes
, the author order is important. The author order is based on their contribution to the work.
The claim
is the author’s main argument—what the author wants you to do, think, or believe by the time you finish reading the text. The content is the evidence which provides the support and reasoning upon which the claim is built.
First and last positions have traditionally been top-ranked, with a margin to the rest (cf. Walker et al., 2010). It follows from the above ranking that the second position is also important.
Second-to-last, however, is not
.
Second author is
the second main person who contributes mainly to experiments and manuscript writing
. Somewhat less in percentage to first author. And so on for third, fourth and rest.. Authorship consideration is usually all of your contribution to that project.
An author is a person who is involved in creating written content entirely on their own. Co-authors on the other hand are
those who work in tandem with an author
to help them write a piece of literary work.
What does being the first author (or lead author) actually mean? In most cases, especially in academic publishing, the author listed first on a published article is
the one who has done the research and has written and edited the paper.
It depends on the field and on agreement between authors, but from career perspective it
is better
if a person has also sometimes been the first author (and in some fields, also published something alone), it does not matter so much if a person has mostly been a second or a third author.
The
number of authors is unlimited in principal
. There are publications with dozens if not hundreds of authors in large international multi-institutional projects. But in the last past years more and more journals have limited the number of co-authors. Typically the limitation is six authors.
First author is usually the student /researcher who has undertaken the research work. First author is often also referred as the presenting author. … Corresponding author is usually the
senior author
who provides the intellectual input and designs and approves the protocols to be followed in the study.
