Abstract
There is an increasing trend of multi author research papers in the medical and science journals. Multidisciplinary scientific collaboration indeed must be encouraged, but we need to avoid misinterpretations so that current and future scientific communities can evaluate author contributions. First author should know who should be eligible for the authorship.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v4i4.11207 Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 2014; 4(4):384-85
Highlights
First author should know who should be eligible for the authorship[3]
A day’s most of the researchers have more than 100 research publications
It is because of the importance of scientific publications for getting research grants, awards and a good job in a reputed institution. 20th Century onwards this importance of research publications resulted in a wide spreading research miss-conducts like plagiarism, poor quality research, and adding several authors who didn’t contribute to the research paper
Summary
A relevant research cannot be done without a good team which include the different specialists if required and an expert statistician. Suppose for a good research paper published in a high impact factor journal will be given 10 points by the evaluator 100 % score will be there if only one author. Some of the evaluators used to tell the researcher to keep the best 3 to 10 publications for the evaluation purpose according to the agencies In this case some researchers will be thinking evaluator is biased and given the award to another researcher who has few publications. Keep it in mind there are several universities and agencies who consider only the first author articles for promotions and research grants. Hundley and her colleagues have highlighted the specific responsibilities associated with the role of lead author which are outlined in the below box[8]
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