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RE: Academic Authorship - Anything Goes!

in #life7 years ago

This article has an interesting approach to tackle this problem: https://medium.com/@devang/science-first-scientists-later-6419cbc4ac9b

In general the whole scientific publishing sector needs a major update. The current system is quite broken I would say. What you're pointing out is one of the many symptoms.

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Wow, thanks for sharing that article! I'm actually about to submit a paper to Cell Metabolism, and they 'strongly suggest' using that credit taxonomy, albeit still tucked away st the tail end of the paper. I really like the idea of only using that and dropping the author list!