Fun ways of deciding authorship order (2016)(dynamicecology.wordpress.com) |
Fun ways of deciding authorship order (2016)(dynamicecology.wordpress.com) |
Every Author as First Author: (pdf) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01393
https://www.ams.org/learning-careers/leaders/CultureStatemen...
I’m in physics, we have this thing where the first author did the most and the last author supervised the most, and the person in the middle just had an occasional coffee with them.
What you don't want is second-to-last on a paper w 4 or more authors. That's the worst.
> We explore the phenomenon of coauthorship by economists who share a surname. Prior research has included at most three economist coauthors who share a surname. Ours is the first paper to have four economist coauthors who share a surname, as well as the first where such coauthors are unrelated by marriage, blood or current campus.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/joshuagoodman/files/goodma...
set.seed (7998976/5271)
x ‹- sample (c("Anne", "Peder"), 1)
print (paste ("The winner is", x, "!"))
Which is what caused the whole "race to first authorship" mentality in the first place.
Except his surname was Aaronson and mine starts with a P.
Really? Wouldn't that depend on how you spelled it and what kind of Unicode ordering you specified?
Which comes first?
'\u0047\u00f6\u0064\u0065\u006c'
'\u0047\u006f\u0308\u0064\u0065\u006c'