A colleague and I have written an ms. summarizing the literature on authorship decisions in biological sciences and suggested a number of ways to address potential conflicts in authorship. The ms. was sent to a general journal and one of the reviewer's sentiments appeared to be that such conflicts are not particularly common. My own experience suggests this is not true (as does a rather large literature, after all if conflicts were rare there would be no need for the 50+ papers on the subject). But I thought I'd conduct an unscientific poll on the subject. Please respond to me privately at [email protected] and basically I'd just like to know if you have had one or multiple conflicts (successfully or unsuccessfully resolved) over authorship of a scientific paper and also your position (undergrad, grad student, post-doc, etc.) . This can be done anonymously (easy to set up a gmail account with a fake name) and if we include the results in our ms the data will be aggregated (i.e. it will be presented as X% people had no conflicts, X% people had one conflict and X% had multiple, only be in terms of X percentage, along with the fact that this was an informal and likely biased poll. TIA, g2
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