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I don't think there's the concept of first author in theoretical CS? All the papers I've seen there follow the same practice as in Math, where authors are just
by rifung 9y ago
I don't think there's the concept of first author in theoretical CS? All the papers I've seen there follow the same practice as in Math, where authors are just alphabetical.
- dragonwriter 9y agoNo matter how they are listed, someone is probably doing a disprortionate share of the team wrangling and managing the process to publication.
- relyio 9y agoThat's another matter entirely. Yes, authors don't always bring equal contribution and effort into an academic work. But, here it's someone claiming that not being first author is a major deal, or bears any significance at all, when in fact it doesn't.
- dragonwriter 9y agoI read the claim that not being first author (who in may, but not all—IIRC, e.g., biosciences are different—other fields is normally the person who is the administrative point) means less irreducible management overhead limiting total throughput, in response to a comment indication that the shear administrative overhead of the number of publications seemed prohibitive.
- rifung 9y agoMy concern was not about the administrative burden of publishing but of the difficulty of actually finding results which are publishable. I'm not sure which the original comment though.