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What? The goal of a PhD is to train somebody to be a researcher and collaborator. The best way to do this is to collaborate with them on research. Collaborators
by majos 8y ago
What? The goal of a PhD is to train somebody to be a researcher and collaborator. The best way to do this is to collaborate with them on research. Collaborators deserve authorship.
I understand that many labs are hierarchical with ideas solely handed down from top to bottom, but removing advisor authorship is a big step.
- api 8y agoThe problem is that sometimes the ideas flow from bottom to top while the credit is top to bottom.
- quickben 8y agoAnd thus, we are in the present conundrum: Some profs are decent human beings, and the system runs. Some profs are sociopaths, and the system gets abused. Other fields got their rules in place because of above. It is not fair to the profs that are decent human beings, but, ignoring the second point, makes it unfair to a lot more students that go through it.