Comments on: Why senior authorship is bad for ecology (and probably science in general) http://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2008/12/10/why-senior-authorship-is-bad-for-ecology-and-probably-science-in-general/ Ethan White’s and Morgan Ernest’s blog for discussing issues and ideas related to ecology and academia. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Has the error of senior authorship come to ecology? « Jabberwocky Ecology http://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2008/12/10/why-senior-authorship-is-bad-for-ecology-and-probably-science-in-general/#comment-994 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:13:38 +0000 http://jabberwockyecology.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-994 [...] two years ago I suggested that the idea of using the last position on an author line to indicate the “senior…. While I still believe this to be true I’m wondering if this is a battle that has already [...]

]]> By: Dave Raikow http://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2008/12/10/why-senior-authorship-is-bad-for-ecology-and-probably-science-in-general/#comment-16 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:59:38 +0000 http://jabberwockyecology.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-16 Hear, hear.

No one who didn’t substantially contribute to a paper should be an author. I suspect “senior authors” may feel pressure to inflate their h-index (http://rivercontinua.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/publish_or_perish/).

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