If the software is the point of the manuscript
, the person should be included as a co-author or as part of a development team. If they software is not the point of the manuscript, but the research is dependent upon the software, they should be included if they were involved in design and architecture.
Authorship rules
My rule has been that a co-author should be
someone who contributes to at least 2-3 of the 6 key “parts” of a study
: getting funding, conceiving the idea, designing the study/experiment, collecting the data, analysing the data, writing the manuscript.
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. If more than one author writes an article, you’ll choose one person to be the corresponding author.
:
one who collaborates with another person in authoring a literary or dramatic work
, a document, a legislative bill, etc. coauthors of many books and plays the coauthors of new legislation.
How I can politely ask him for his contribution? Just
sent him/her an email with a
brief summary of the ideas you are interested in and ask him/her if he/she is interested on the project, it has worked for me. Otherwise, try to attend one of his/her talks and approach him/her and the end of the talk, if possible.
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
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.
Co-authoring means
making every decision together
. … You must consider how decisions will be made. Co-writing the book: You’ll work together intensely for months, sending each other drafts, editing each other’s work, and sticking to deadlines. You should know if you can work with this person in this way for this long.
As mentioned above, 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.
Everyone who has made substantial intellectual contributions to the work should
be an author. Everyone who has made other substantial contributions should be acknowledged. 3.
Corresponding author is
the most important author in a research article
. … The published work will be considered as belonging to Corresponding author group. Sometimes there might be two or even more corresponding authors in a research work.
Both of them are authors no doubt but the difference is that
the author is the one who has developed the idea or concept for a work
while the co-author is a person who is helping the author in writing the work with some contribution.
With Office and OneDrive or SharePoint, multiple people can work together on a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation.
When everyone is working at the same time
, that’s called co-authoring.
Dear Co-Authors, Thank you for your review and feedback. Attached please find the revised draft of the manuscript incorporating your edits suggestions. I plan to submit this to <<journal>> on <<date (allow at least 1 week)>>. Please let me know if you have any further suggestions.
To invite a co-author,
go to a publication you wrote together
, hover your mouse over your co-author’s name, click Invite and enter their email address. You will then send them an invitation to join ResearchGate and, in some cases, up to two reminders.
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 …
