These are our guidelines around authorship on papers, grants, code, and elsewhere. They are founded on principles of openness and collaboration.
General principles
- We do not view authorship as a zero-sum game.
- Authorship in publications should be explicitly discussed between everyone involved as early as possible, ideally as soon as a project starts.
- Projects that lab members bring with them do not automatically confer authorship rights to either Carlos or other lab members.
- However, if work is conducted on them during the course of being present in the lab, acknowledgments would be appreciated (funding acknowledgments are necessary).
- Projects with collaboration between lab members confer authorship to those directly involved, whether that collaboration is intellectual or technical. For example, writing code to support analysis would confer authorship, but if one person produces a dataset and publishes it, usage of said dataset in another project does not automatically confer authorship to the dataset author.
- Sharing information during group meetings does not automatically confer authorship.
- If material intellectual contributions (i.e., new directions, solutions to problems, specific and directed project ideas) are made by lab members, that would confer authorship.
- Please keep Carlos apprised of the broad outlines of your external and internal collaborations.
- You do not have to involve Carlos or grant him authorship in your external collaborations.
Scientific Articles
- For scientific articles, the first (lead) author should be the person developing the project and writing the manuscript.
- Carlos, as the students’/post-docs’ supervisor, will always be last author on students/post-docs articles in which he has authorship.
- The order of the other authors must be discussed and agreed on by all involved. If there is no agreement, Carlos can chime in or it can be decided based on a rock-paper-scissors tournament.
- The same logic applies to Datasets and Data Papers
Credit
This Code of Conduct was adapted from the Computer-Oriented Geoscience Lab, and is licensed CC-BY.