In response just to this post (see below): I think there are widely different views on what constitutes the "bulk" of the work.
I often argue that the idea is 95% of the project; the rest is just grunt work: writing, collecting and analyzing data, etc. even though it might take tremendously more time, without the prior lit review (even though it may not be written out formally and just exists in folder as a series of articles with notations all over them) and the hypothesis to test, there would be no study. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:24:20 -0400 >From: "Bourgeois, Dr. Martin" <mbour...@fgcu.edu> >Subject: RE: [tips] An outsider's view of authorship >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > >APA guidelines suggest that whoever does the bulk of the work on a given >project, whether students or faculty, should be first author. This seems >eminently sensible to me, although not everyone I know follows this >suggestion. One exception is publications stemming from theses or >dissertations, where the student should almost always be first, barring >unusual circumstances. > >________________________________________ >From: Michael Smith [tipsl...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:18 PM >To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >Subject: Re: [tips] An outsider's view of authorship > >I thought that's the way it was in psych---the grad students and >post-docs get first authorship and the PI gets the last position. >Everyone I know in my area of research works that way. I have heard in >some related area where perhaps some 'old school' types always take >first authorship, but I think that is the minority. No? > >--Mike > >On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Paul C Bernhardt ><pcbernha...@frostburg.edu> wrote: >> >> I find a lot to admire about what Ubel is suggesting in this short article. >> His main point is that Psychology would reduce authorship controversies by >> adopting the model used in Medical publication of research. That is: Younger >> authors, who usually are doing the predominance of day-to-day work and >> writing on the article, should be first author and the most senior person >> overseeing the research lab should be last author. He says Tenure committees >> for physician researchers actually expect more advanced faculty to be >> sliding to increasingly later positions in the authorship and that too many >> first authorships is considered a mark against you. >> >> http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2563 >> >> -- >> Paul Bernhardt >> Frostburg State University >> Frostburg, MD, USA >> >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
