- Select a language for the TTS:
- UK English Female
- UK English Male
- US English Female
- US English Male
- Australian Female
- Australian Male
- Language selected: (auto detect) - EN
Play all audios:
Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Having publications in peer-reviewed journals is a main criterion for promotion, tenure or funding, yet not all co-authors are created equal.
Jonathan D. Wren _et al_. (_EMBO Rep._ 8, 988–991; 2007) have investigated what readers think of the role of authors on the basis of their byline position and the total number of authors on
a publication. Although first or last authors are generally apportioned most credit for the work, it is not known exactly how much authors are perceived to have contributed from their
byline position. Wren _et al_. surveyed chairs of promotion and tenure committees, and found that respondents felt that the first author in a three-person byline had made the greatest
contribution to the work performed, whereas the last author deserved most credit for the conception and supervision of the project. According to this survey, adding authors to a publication
apparently does not affect the relative overall credit afforded to the last author, but the perceived contributions of all other authors suffer a drop in value. (For more details, see
http://blogs.nature.com/nautilus/2007/11/perceptions_of_author_listings.html) This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your
institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access
to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our
FAQs * Contact customer support ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VISIT NAUTILUS FOR REGULAR NEWS RELEVANT TO _NATURE_ AUTHORS → HTTP://BLOGS.NATURE.COM/NAUTILUS AND SEE PEER-TO-PEER FOR NEWS FOR
PEER-REVIEWERS AND ABOUT PEER REVIEW → HTTP://BLOGS.NATURE.COM/PEER-TO-PEER . RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE From the blogosphere.
_Nature_ 450, xiii (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/7170xiiic Download citation * Published: 28 November 2007 * Issue Date: 29 November 2007 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/7170xiiic SHARE
THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to
clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative
