On Being a Scientist Responsible Conduct in Research, Second Edition (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Authorship Practices
Authorship Practices
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The allocation of credit can be particularly sensitive when it involves researchers at different stages of their careers for example, postdocs and graduate students, or senior faculty and student researchers. In such situations, differences in roles and status compound the difficulties of according credit.
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Others, including Bell herself, said that she received adequate recognition in other ways and should not have been so lavishly rewarded for doing what a graduate student is expected to do in a project conceived and set up by others researcher, even if at the moment of discovery the senior researcher is not present. By the same token, when a student or research assistant is making an intellectual contribution to a research project, that contribution deserves to be recognized.
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Some researchers may feel that the pressures on them are an inducement to haste at the expense of care. For example, they may believe that they have to do substandard work to compile a long list of publications and that this practice is accept Paula, a young assistant professor, and two graduate students have been working on a series of related experiments for the past several years.
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