The other of authorship may be based on individual contribution to the article. … Though authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions, basically
there is no difference in the credit of 2nd and 3rd authors
.
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.
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.
First and last positions have traditionally been top-ranked, with a margin to the rest (cf. … 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.
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 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 …
Yes
, the author order is important. The author order is based on their contribution to the work.
Even with middle-author publications on the rise, “they count for promotion, but they
don’t count
as much as first- and last-author publications,” Jackson notes. “Just like book chapters and review articles, they count, but not as much as original research articles.”
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 corresponding author is
the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during
the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process.
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.
First author is usually the student /researcher who has undertaken the research work. … Corresponding author is usually the
senior author
who provides the intellectual input and designs and approves the protocols to be followed in the study.
A co-author is any person who has
made a significant contribution to a journal article
. They also share responsibility and accountability for the results. … The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all the authors’ contact details are correct.
In this case, the third author would be
the last author
. The last author in some fields assumes special importance: he or she is usually the supervisor or the PI, the person who has procured grants and under whose supervision the project has seen completion.
- List all the authors (put yourself in bold).
- List the first x authors (where 10 is a common value of x) then put et al (several journals/funding bodies use this format). …
- List all the authors up to and including your name, and then put et al.
- List just the first author.
