From chemistry-request- at -server.ccl.net Mon Mar 6 10:32:56 2000 Received: from SEMOVM.SEMO.EDU (semovm.semo.edu [150.201.1.1]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA27806 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:32:55 -0500 Received: from tony [150.201.19.145] by SEMOVM.SEMO.EDU (IBM VM SMTP Level 310) via TCP with SMTP ; Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:24:01 CST Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000306082739.007f4330: at :semovm.semo.edu> X-Sender: ajduben ^at^ semovm.semo.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:27:39 -0600 To: chemistry:~at~:ccl.net From: "Anthony J. Duben" Subject: Re: CCL:authorship In-Reply-To: <20000305121655.92981.qmail*- at -*hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:16 PM 3/5/00 GMT, C. Yang wrote: >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. >______________________________________________________ > > > Sounds to me like the authors are working in fairly hostile environment for tenure and promotion. Anthony J. Duben (ajduben%!at!%semovm.semo.edu) ******************************************************** Anthony J. Duben Professor and Chairman Computer Science Dept., MS 5950 Southeast Missouri State University 1 University Plaza Cape Girardeau MO 63701-4799 phone: 573-651-2194 fax: 573-651-2791 e-mail: ajduben #at# semovm.semo.edu or c867buc |-at-| semovm.semo.edu "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats