Dear Ecologers, I think this topic is a very interesting one. Thanks
for posting this!
Here are the criteria developed by the Council of Science Editors (see
their website for more info: http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/).
This is what I tend to follow when writing papers. Of course, each
manuscript has its own story, and sometimes it can get very
disappointing. All authors don't have the same level of ethics...
Lyne Morissette, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (FQRNT)
University of Guelph
&
Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski (UQAR-ISMER)
email: [email protected]
tel: 418-723-1986 #1981
2.2.1 Authorship and Contributorship Models
In 1985, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
(ICMJE) published criteria within the Uniform Requirements for
Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals that defined authorship.
The current ICMJE statement on authorship reads:
Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to
conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and
interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it
critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval
of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2,
and 3.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of
the research group, alone, does not justify authorship.
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and
all those who qualify should be listed.
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take
public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.1
On Jun 7, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Gurmeet Singh wrote:
Dear List members.
In case of a multi-authored papers, what is the significance of
position in
authorship ? For example, how are first author, second author ,
corresponding author or the last author rated for their
contribution to
a manuscript ?
Quite often, there are conflicts/arguments among the authors with
respect to
their position in a manuscript. Do there exist any set of relevant
rules? Is
it entirely depended on the P.I. ( Principal Investigator)?
I hope to get comments from you on this.
Regards
Gurmeet
