Tag Archives: corresponding author
Who gets to be the corresponding author?
Let’s just get one thing straight about authorship. It is a political statement. Like all political statements, it is highly subject to dispute, but also has some underlying truth. Authorship is a convention and the conventions are different in different … Continue reading
Do reporters ever understand authorship?
We just published a paper in PNAS that showed something really cool. In summary, we identified the small molecules produced by an inedible bacterium and used as weapons against other clones and secret sauce for the host Dictyostelium discoideum clone. … Continue reading
Posted in Science writing for the public
Tagged authorship, collaboration, corresponding author, lab head, reporter, senior author
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