Authorship

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Authorship

• Shirin Irani

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Who is an author?
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• An author is generally considered to be someone
  who has made intellectual
  contributions to a published study

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Decision about Authorship

• The most sensitive part of writing a paper

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Criteria for authorship(Vancouver guidelines)

• Authorship credit should be based on
• Substantial contributions to conception or
  design, or analysis and interpretation of data.
• Drafting the article or revising it critically
  for important intellectual content.
• Final approval of the version to be published

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Each Author

• should have participated sufficiently in the work
  to take public responsibility for appropriate
  portions of the content.
• Should be able to present the results, defend it
  discuss the limitations.

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Order of Authors names

• it depends!
• The sequence of authors should be determined by
  the relative overall contributions to the
  manuscript.

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First Author

• The first author should be that person who
  contributed most to the work, including writing
  of the manuscript in consultation with coauthors

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First Author

• Should have ...
• takes primary responsibility for all aspects of
  publishing the paper
• Supervise the data analyses interprets the
  results
• writing of the manuscript in consultation with
  coauthors
• Responsible for archiving all data

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Coauthors

• Make early decisions in the aims of the paper
• Make intellectual contribution to the data
  analyses
• Contribute to the interpretation of the results
• Take public responsibility for the content
  results

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Lead authorCorresponding author

• A person who is responsible for ensuring that all
  other authors review and approve the final
  version.

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Senior Author

• Formulated the original hypothesis
• Provided significant intellectual resources
• Provided constructive criticism of the
  manuscript

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Senior Author

• It is common practice to have the senior author
  appear last, sometimes regardless of his or
• her contribution.

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• All contributors who do not meet the criteria for
  authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments
  section
• who provided purely technical help
• writing assistance
• department chair who provided only general
  support
• Financial and material support

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AuthorshipWhat Doesnt Count

• Chair of dept., Chief of division, director of
  laboratory, etc.
• Statistical advice (alone)
• Data entry, processing, or management
• Providing or helping obtain space, money, staff,
  or other resources

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How to avoid problems with authorship?

• Follow the international guidelines.
• Agree before starting
• Dont add a senior author to improve the chances
  of publication
• Agree on who will be corresponding author.

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