Questions about citations on CV

[ilovedance1]

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During graduate school I had several publications that my dissertation chair/training director took first authorship for. I came up with the research question, analyzed the data, and wrote up the article. Her contribution was editing and adding any necessary details that I left out (pretty minimal). She is listed as the first author and I am listed as the second author on all of these publications. I should have argued for 1st authorship, but it is clearly too late for that. Now I am applying for jobs after postdoc. Somebody just suggested that I add a statement after each citation clarifying what my contributions were to each article. Is this something that is actually done/acceptable? Or should I should suck it up and move on, leaving myself as 2nd author without clarifying anything?

 

[PsyDr]

Depends on how many authors, funding source, IRB, etc. In most areas, the PI is listed last. Might apply to you might not.

 

[ilovedance1]

Depends on how many authors, funding source, IRB, etc. In most areas, the PI is listed last. Might apply to you might not.

There were generally 3 or 4 authors and no funding source. The IRB was generally done through her. These were already published, so I can't change the order of authors now. I am just wondering if I should make a note about my contribution to the article following the citation on my CV, just to make it clear that I contributed a lot to the project (the amount typically expected of a first author). Is making a note about contributions under a citation in a CV ever done and would it be acceptable/helpful for me to do?

 

[psych.meout]

I've never encountered this scenario before, but I could see it backfiring. You don't want to look like you're holding a grudge or being passive aggressive, because the author order wasn't worked out to your liking in an adult manner before the manuscript was submitted.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's just the impression I get. This was sketchy behavior by the dissertation chair/training director, but I don't know that it would helpful to do anything about it now.

 

[Pragma]

I wouldn't. Invites too many questions. I vote for suck it up and move on.

 

[Justanothergrad]

Agreed with others for the reasons they note- move on and don't bother listing your duties.

 

[ilovedance1]

Thanks for the advice. Sucking it up and moving on it is.

 

[futureapppsy2]

I think this would look extremely petty. I wouldn't do it.