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.
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 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.
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 last one is often the senior author of the paper, the person that has conceptualized and supervised the work, and the person in whose group or lab all or most of the work has been done. The first author is
the person whose name appears first on the paper and thus
, often, the person whose name is remembered.
Yes
, the author order is important. The author order is based on their contribution to the work.
The first author should be that person who contributed most to the work
, including writing of the manuscript. … It is common practice to have the senior author appear last, sometimes regardless of his or her contribution. The senior author, like all other authors, should meet all criteria for authorship.
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.
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.
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.”
At present, in our academic scientific field the first and the last author and the corresponding author (who may be the first, the second or the last author) are
considered the most important positions in a paper
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
