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Research assistants: Scientific credit and recognized authorship
Author(s) -
Nelson Phillip,
Petrova Marina G.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1467
Subject(s) - perception , public relations , resistance (ecology) , psychology , sociology , political science , neuroscience , ecology , biology
Key points Research assistants are frequently excluded from authorship for several reasons—including the perception that they merely provide paid administrative help. Authorship criteria should be based on the people who are both shapers and doers rather than the ICMJE recommendations which can be differently interpreted. The pressure for single‐authored papers in some disciplines may lead to the exclusion of substantive contributors from authorship lists. The CRediT taxonomy is a preferable means of recognizing and rewarding authors but may find resistance of those unwilling to disclose exact contributions. Publishers can assist in recognizing all contributing authors by requiring affirmation that all who have significantly contributed are credited as authors.