#scientific-writing: paper's authorship

#Scientific writing: Credit point for authorship

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Following my previous post on how to decide authorship, this post describes a system introduced by Vancouver Guidelines.

The guideline describe a point system to help us decide the authorship on a paper. There are four phases in a research or paper project. Each has its own point range, depends on a person's contribution in the project. So the four phases are:

• Initiation phase:

  ideas, concept, literature review, etc

• Pilot phase:

  methodology setup, sampling design, map preparation, etc

• Execution phase:

  field survey, database entry, lab analysis, etc

• Analysis and writing phase:

  report/paper drafting, finishing, map drawing, data mining, etc

We can sum the scores and rank to see which author doing the most work. A first author would be a person with most contribution scores than the rest of the authors.

You can visit the website and download the guidelines, for more explanation in the point system.