rank order of authorship

[mmonte4]

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A. undergrad student who helped with data set

B. undergrad student who helped with data set and contributed to into

C. Professor whose disertation data was used to acquire data set. Helped guide undergrad author through poster process. Ran analyses. Help guide ideas.

D. Grad student who submitted project to ABCT

F. Undergrad student who came up with idea for poster, did lit review, wrote all sections for poster (into, methods, etc.)

Please rank 1-5.

 

[mmonte4]

F. also finalized data set.

 

[docjohng]

There is no "right" answer to this question. Authorship attribution is often negotiated as a part of agreeing to work on a study together. Generally speaking, the person who's idea it was for the actual study is the first author, and is usually responsible for the majority of the written work of the study. Seniority also often plays a role in assigning authorship (although, in an ideal world, it shouldn't).

You're not clear on whether the situation resulted in simply a poster session, or an actual accepted-for-publication study. If it's just a poster, then usually the same rules apply -- the person who did the most amount of work and who's idea it was to put together the poster in the first place probably would expect first authorship. Unless a professor is fairly desperate, most will be flexible in not taking first authorship for offshoots of their dataset. Grad students will vary, as their incentive to get published (and be first author) may be higher than the professors (and certainly higher than most undergrads).

John

 

[RxnMan]

Please refer to this discussion to get an idea of how authors are distributed on clinical papers.