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To all the people who say the senior professor must be an author but the undergrad who did everything can't (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rustydrd to c/[email protected]

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[–] rustydrd 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Senior professor: Your work was instrumental in getting this published, and we think your efforts should be rewarded.

The reward: 👍

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

don't get me wrong. Its was a written thank you at the end of the paper but it was not an authorship. That was actually pretty cool of them given the usual nothing at all.

[–] rustydrd 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Definitely better than nothing, I just think researchers should more liberally give credit where it's due, and although things are changing, I still see lots of people treat authorship like it's some precious commodity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean literally a commodity. Use someones cell line. they get listed as author.