The most common way authors are listed is by
relative contribution
. The author who most substantially worked on the draft article and the underlying research becomes the first author. The others are ranked in descending order of contribution.
The most common way authors are listed is by
relative contribution
. The author who most substantially worked on the draft article and the underlying research becomes the first author. The others are ranked in descending order of contribution.
The first author is usually
the person who has made the most significant intellectual contribution to the work
, in terms designing the study, acquiring and analyzing data from experiments, and writing the manuscript.
The first author or presenting author is usually
a researcher who carried out the research work
. The responsibilities of the first authors are doing the research, preparing the manuscript, and analyzing the data. … Every first author can be considered as the main author but not the main authors are the first ones though.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Shared co-first authorship is defined as
two or more authors who have worked together on a publication and contributed equally
[8]. … For instance, Gastroenterology acknowledges up to two co-first authors by bolding their names in the reference section but not in the body of the manuscript [10].
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.
Yes, you can
. An article can have more than one corresponding author. … ” While some journals allow the practice of including two contact authors or corresponding authors, many journals do not. In your case, having two corresponding authors is a requirement for your 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.
Even if you’re the second author,
having another paper is always beneficial
. You may be asked to outline your own contribution to the article by a hiring or review committee. It will be beneficial to you if you can do so honestly and point to some significant addition to the paper.
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.
