Authorship
confers credit and has important academic, social, and financial implications
. Authorship also implies responsibility and accountability for published work. … The ICMJE has thus developed criteria for authorship that can be used by all journals, including those that distinguish authors from other contributors.
Authorship
provides recognition among peers and establishes intellectual and professional credibility
, which contribute to career progression. In tandem with these benefits, however, come responsibility and accountability for the dissemination of research findings.
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.
1 :
the profession of writing
. 2 : the source (such as the author) of a piece of writing, music, or art. 3 : the state or act of writing, creating, or causing.
As one’s career progresses, being last author and author for correspondence signals that this is a paper from one’s Unit, he/she is
the main person responsible for its contents
, and a younger colleague has made major contributions to the paper, hence he/she is designated as the first author.
Ghost authorship is essentially the opposite of honorary authorship,
entailing a significant contribution to a manuscript without acknowledgment of that contribution
. … One BMJ survey found that such ghost authorship was present in approximately one-tenth of papers published in six medical journals in 2008.
Consulting the dictionary
As a verb,
author
is simply a more distinguished term for write. A writer can be anyone who writes anything. An author is a distinguished and professional writer who has published and sold their work.
Yes
, the author order is important. The author order is based on their contribution to the work.
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.
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 position of last author can be
highly valued
because it often indicates the senior author with the highest level of academic and/or supervisory status among the listed authors.
| writing production | genesis creation | generation composition | derivation origination | initiation invention |
|---|
- Choose subjects that interests readers.
- Write fiction or nonfiction scripts, biographies, and other formats.
- Conduct research to get factual information and authentic detail.
- Write advertising copy for newspapers, magazines, broadcasts, and the Internet.
- Present drafts to editors and clients for feedback.
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 last author(s) are usually
the supervisors and professors overseeing the research effort
. They probably took part in discussions, maybe even drafted some text. In most cases, they just supervised the process/project.
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.
