Authorship

SeeingSlutsky caseauthorship issues-85 your name on your first published paper may be one of the most exciting moments in your career. Many students thus enter a discussion on authorship focusing on the question, “How do I get my name on a paper?” In our experience, more important and difficult questions include when and how to keep your name off a particular paper and how to negotiate questions of authorship among collaborators in a multi-investigator project.