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And they wouldn't make him first named author on the paper
by ascorbic 2y ago
And they wouldn't make him first named author on the paper
- yacin 2y agoit's common in math/cs theory papers to have the order of authors be alphabetical rather than in descending order of contribution.
- writebetterc 2y agoGood, but that can also be noted in a subtitle right below the authors (I've seen this in papers myself!)
- Ar-Curunir 2y agoThe paper is not targeted at laymen, but other members of the research community, who are aware of the author ordering convention.
- mometsi 2y agoI wonder if there's a significant nominative determinism effect-- One might expect some of the most prominent people in math and cs theory to have names like Aaronson and Baez...
- chikere232 2y agoIt would be most fair to hash the names first, especially for this paper
- usefulcat 2y agoI suppose then the next question will be which author gets to choose the hash function..
- yencabulator 2y agoThey all pick one, results are XORred together.
- theLiminator 2y agoYeah, seems a bit ridiculous that he made the discovery and didn't get first authorship.
- anticensor 2y agoSibling comment mentions this specific field doesn't have author ordering.
- acaloiar 2y agoThe classiest person I ever knew placed me before him on a paper just to be nice. Not only was he responsible for getting the grants funding our research, but the heft of both the theoretical and paper authorship work. I'm no longer in R&D and/or academia, but at that point I decided to do the same for someone if I ever have the opportunity to write a noteworthy paper with someone who is my junior.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoThe best papers have "contribution statements" which clearly lays out who did what.