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Are they also the first author? that is the relevant question. Letting a PhD do all the work and just slapping your name at the end of the 'author'-list hardly

Are they also the first author? that is the relevant question. Letting a PhD do all the work and just slapping your name at the end of the 'author'-list hardly seems authorship. By this definition a CEO of a building company builds a flat in whole year just by himself.

Amygaz 8y ago
The end of the list is called Senior author and is very important and sometime a point of contention between collaborators. Still, if your name is on the list it’s because you presumably had a significant scientific contribution. So no, being a CEO is not an automatic qualification. It’s actually a good measure of how narcissistic a CEO is.