Seminar 2 Adam Sobkowiak Andreas Blidberg Dou Du Fredrik Lindgren Yu Zhang Relations with fellow researchers Collaboration between two PhD students one experimentalist and one theoretician ID: 477157
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Research collaborations, colleagues and supervision Seminar 2
Adam Sobkowiak
Andreas Blidberg
Dou
Du
Fredrik
Lindgren
Yu ZhangSlide2
Relations with fellow researchersCollaboration between two PhD students, one experimentalist and one theoretician.
The theoretician proposed the project.
The theoretician is dependent on the experimentalist unique method.
The experimentalists work is fast and light and quickly makes a draft as first authors without discussion.
The theoretician PhD student need at least one paper as first author. Slide3
What is the problem?Collaboration was launched without proper planning. Different expectations from the two PhD students.
Different timescales of the work.
The theoretician is dependent on the experimentalist, but the experimentalist can collaborate with others.
Who decides the author order?
Who made the largest and the most significant contribution?Slide4
Possible solutionsPublish as is, experimentalist first authorPublish as two individual papers
The project is cancelled – no publication
Theoretician is first author
Publish with two first authorsSlide5
The actorsSlide6
StrengthsNo bad feelingsWin win situationHigh impact journal
Journal gets a nice publication
Synergetic effects – the sum of the parts is larger than the whole
Opportunities
More
citations and references
Future funding
Society notice & media pick up
Many researchers will notice and can continue.
Threats
Journal accept 2 authors?
”Forced” solution => damage future collaborations
Illusion of a good collaboration
Weaknesses
Ethical
ly correct? Theoreticians did 70%!
Credit to the right funding and agency.
Credit to the right researcher
Dilute
the authorships
The real problem is not solvedSlide7
Concluding remarksBad planning results in this kind of situations. No standard or rules to decide the author order.
Difficulties in evaluation of contributions (idea vs. unique technique).
No perfect solution.