🛑 How to list authors?
1️⃣ Based on the contribution of the paper (most tasks, and the accuracy of doing those tasks as well).
2️⃣ Based on alphabetical order (I highly don’t support this concept).
3️⃣ The project lead should be the first author.
4️⃣ The senior author (Principal investigator) should be the last (however, in our country, a lot of senior authors prefer to be the first author, so make sure to ask him/her first to avoid any conflicts).
5️⃣ Corresponding author is the author who submitted the paper (not related to the order at all, it can be any one of the co-authors). Sometimes the last author (PI) is credited as the corresponding author.
6️⃣ Some journals will allow you to have a shared first authorship, which means that the first and second authors have contributed equally and both consider themselves “first author.”
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