It could also be salami-tactic, the least-publishable unit. @Christine, since you are at a company and worry about somebodies PhD I would contact the person from that Acta F paper and simply inform them that you would like to publish that. There are many scenarios that might follow, one of them would be co-publish back-to-back, another one add the PhD student as second author and the PI somewhere else on the same paper if they contribute additional data, or publish alone.
During my PhD I had that offer, we decided to not co-publish and let the others take the "fame" (don't take that too serious, it's a low cited paper). Jürgen ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Office: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-2926 http://lupo.jhsph.edu On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Christine, I would assume that someone who publishes crystallisation conditions has given up solving the structure or some other reason to encourage others to pick up the project, i.e., no, I don't see much point NOT publishing your data. Cheers, Tim On 09/25/2012 03:32 PM, Lukacs, Christine wrote: I'd like to get a community opinion on something. If a group has published crystallization and diffraction data (Acta Cryst F style crystallization report), and you happen to have the same crystal form and have solved the structure, is there an unspoken rule that you don't publish, or an amount of time that you wait to allow the other group to publish before you do? I am not talking about a high impact structure with a race to publish. Just looking for a general consensus. Thanks Christine Christine Lukacs, Ph.D. Principal Scientist Roche [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> This message is intended for the use of the named recipient(s) only and may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete this message. Any unauthorized use of the information contained in this message is prohibited. - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFQYbbIUxlJ7aRr7hoRAo54AJ9VezGSlgF3JATdN+kNDs3OrxNFugCgnJro Hh4ZMkUtBbCWn19cHjKUqEo= =7j/9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
