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>>It’s unethical to use a person’s name to publish a study or charge for co-authorship. Maybe I am alone on this, but is "collaborating" on topics one has litt
by Topfi 3y ago
>>It’s unethical to use a person’s name to publish a study or charge for co-authorship.
Maybe I am alone on this, but is "collaborating" on topics one has little to no in-depth knowledge in and essentially just checking the language/graphics significantly less unethical?
Being a co-author in-itself can be viewed as a thing of value, even if one does not receive monetary compensation.
- boondoggle16 3y ago> essentially just checking the language/graphics I'm outside academia, but that seems unethical to me. As you said, the co-authorship brings the real value. These people want tenured positions not a few hundred dollars.
- imtringued 3y agoIt is unethical to misrepresent your involvement. I personally see no reason to punish publishing papers with a high degree of the division of labor but I do take issue with the idea that everyone contributed the same amount of work. Co-authorship no longer means anything. If academics insist on counting points, then let the primary author allocate 10 points across all the coauthors.
- autoexec 3y agoWe also have a system lets academics collect points, without risk of losing them. A badly researched paper or unethical practice should cost points and destroy reputations.
- em-bee 3y agoif you check language/graphics or anything similar you are an editor, not an author.