Beyond authorship: recognising the contributions to research - blog.f1000.com, 10.02.2016

Original research articles with one author – particularly in the life sciences – are increasingly rare, and the concept of ‘authorship’ in science has become outdated. Adopting a simple taxonomy of terms to describe the contributions to a published work could enable a range of benefits to all the stakeholders in research – most particularly allowing researchers a new basis upon which to have their contributions recognised.

Among the reasons why change is timely:

(i) There are many contributors to research; reliance on author position to decipher either level or nature of contribution to a published scientific article is increasingly inaccurate (was it ever accurate?), as big, collaborative and ‘team’ science becomes more commonplace in many areas of science.

10. Feb. 2016
10. Feb. 2016