Being second co-first author is not as good as being first co-first author. The paper will always be "Postdoc et al", even if it's "Postdoc*, Otherpostdoc*, GradStudent* et al (*these authors contributed equally)".
On an amusing note, I came across a paper that had three co-third authors. As in, "Author1, Author2, Author3*, Author4*, Author5*, Author6, Author7". WTF is that about?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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Power play (or agreement) between different PIs maybe?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. I can't imagine it makes any difference on anyone's CV to be co-third author rather than fourth.
ReplyDeleteDGT> "let's fool these small monkeys it actually means something with the *** in the middle"
ReplyDeleteI mean, I like my fourth-authorship and my fifth-authorship but more in order to show that I have a story with my papers and my first-author paper led to other papers with other people. Count them as important for my CV as they are? pah, who cares?
and yes, the "shared co-authorship" is mainly important if your name is first - therefore check last names before collaborations ;) (I did have one colleuge who got furious since they put the names in 'random' order so the K could go before the D and the T although everyone knew that the T had done more.... I was wondering about the three co authors but I guess it might happen?!)
Fucking stupid, I think is the answer you're looking for.
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