From chemistry-request[ AT ]server.ccl.net Sun Mar 5 08:23:55 2000 Received: from hotmail.com (f68.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.68]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA20995 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:23:54 -0500 Received: (qmail 92982 invoked by uid 0); 5 Mar 2000 12:16:55 -0000 Message-ID: <20000305121655.92981.qmail;at;hotmail.com> Received: from 212.29.216.97 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 05 Mar 2000 04:16:55 PST X-Originating-IP: [212.29.216.97] From: "C. Yang" To: CHEMISTRY -A_T- ccl.net Subject: authorship Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 12:16:55 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Yesterday, I happen to have a dinner with some biology people. Someone showed the first draft of her paper and I noticed for the first time that there was an astrix on two authors with a footnote saying equal contributors. Then there was an argument that mentioning equal contributors is common in publishing papers. But I do not remember seeing as equal contributiors in computational chemistry papers. I tried to tell that it might be common in biology, but someone vehemently disagreed with me and arguing that it is common in science and nature as well, so it is common in all the areas. Is there someone to make comment on this. Thanks. Parthi PS: if two authors have equal contribution, will it be considered both as primary authors and can the second author who is also an equal contributor can write his name as first author of the paper in his CV. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com