Hi, I would think it unethical - politically unwise or not - to base =20 collaboration and authorship on whether the person is tenured or not.
Whether or not it is ethical to be an author on such a paper would =20 depend on whether your friend is simply providing an english service =20 (in which case he/she should not be an author) or is providing more. Best wishes, Leon Blaustein Community Ecology Laboratory Institute of Evolution, Faculty of Sciences University of Haifa, Haifa 31905 Israel Tel. 972-4-8240736 (office) Tel. 972-4-9998881 (home) Institute Fax: 972-4-8246554 Alternative e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Editor, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution http://israelsciencejournals.com/eco.htm e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editor, Ecology Letters http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=3D1461-023X On Aug 22, 2007, at 4:26 AM, Kim J. Brown wrote: > Alicere - > > Two other very relevant questions: > > 1) Is your friend an untenured person in the department? > > 2) Is the professor/collaborator tenured? > > It may be difficult (i.e., not politically wise) for the untenured =20 > person to > reject collaboration with a tenured member of her department. Tell =20= > your friend > to carefully consider this aspect if she is untenured. > > Regarding authorship rights and author order, there are a number of =20= > good papers > out there that discuss this, e.g.: > > Weltzien JF, Belote RT, Williams LT, Keller JF, Engel EC. =20 > Authorship in ecology: > Attribution, accountability, and responsibility. Front Ecol Environm. > 2006;4:435=96441. > > Good luck! > > ----- Forwarded message from Alicere Bachman =20 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > From: Alicere Bachman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: writing a paper and authorship > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:37:24 -0700 > > One of my friends wants me to post the following question and see =20= > what kind of > opinions you may have: > > My friend is teaching in an univeristy. A professor in her =20 > department did > some interesting work on biodiversity but the professor cannot =20 > write well > enough to put the work into a professional paper. The professor =20 > approached her > asking her to write the paper for him and her to be the second =20 > author, although > she does not have anything to do with the research work. > > 1. Is this a good collaboration? If it is, many people can ask =20 > others to > write papers for them and are still listed as the first authors. > > 2. Is it ethical? (my friend did not do the research; maybe she =20 > should not be > a co-author on something she did not do?) > > 3. Should the person writing the paper be the first author? > > > > Alicere > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > Kim J. Brown, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > [tree ecophysiology & forest ecosystem function] > Dept. of Environmental and Plant Biology > Ohio University, Athens OH 45701 > > Lab =3D http://ecophys.plantbio.ohiou.edu > Dept =3D http://www.plantbio.ohiou.edu
