As you say, being first author is like the holy grail, but being second author on “
someone else’s paper” is not bad at all
, and while it does not scream “amazing” on a CV, it does bulk up your publication record and shows that you are competent researcher, and contribute to work of publishable standard.
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.
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.
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 …
2nd Author:
Person who helped out the most
, and/or person who mentored the 1st author (e.g.: if 1st author was grad student) the most. Then you got every one after that who contributed, e.g: contributing authors. Last author as some has stated is the guy that got the whole thing started.
As you say, being first author is like the holy grail, but being second author on “someone else’s paper
” is not bad at all
, and while it does not scream “amazing” on a CV, it does bulk up your publication record and shows that you are competent researcher, and contribute to work of publishable standard.
1st Author: Person who did most of the work, like write the manuscript, and do most if not all of the experiment. 2nd Author:
Person who helped out the most
, and/or person who mentored the 1st author (e.g.: if 1st author was grad student) the most.
Yes
, the author order is important. The author order is based on their contribution to the work.
Corresponding author
is the most important author in a research article. … First author is the person who makes largest contribution in the research. The most important one. Corresponding author is the person who takes responsibility of answering all queries.
Although an author list should only reflect those who have made substantial contributions to a research project and its draft manuscript, we’d be remiss to say that
author order doesn’t matter
. … Traditionally, the last author position is reserved for the supervisor or principal investigator.
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.
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.
Is it possible to write both of them in the last place as co-last authors? No. As expected, an author list is not a tree or a weighted graph, but a simple flat (one-dimensional) list.
There is exactly one last author
.
Most Ph. D. … For post-doctoral researchers and senior professors, publishing first-authored papers
is important for receiving funding and getting promoted or re-hired
. Thus, the first name in an author list is the most sought-after position in a scientific publication.
A co-author is
someone who jointly writes the book or paper WITH another author
; both parties are actively writing and including their ideas. It is a partnership where both parties write and both have their name on the cover of the book.
Corresponding author is usually the senior author who provides the intellectual input and designs and approves the protocols to be followed in the study. …
The person doing the work or the actual researcher/ Student becomes
the second author or even a co-author also.
