"MEAA's national media section committee has nominated long-standing MEAA member Adele Ferguson – book author, Gold Walkley winner and senior Fairfax journalist – for the position of author director on the Copyright Agency board," the union said in a special notice to members.
"You just don't change the position of author's names on scientific papers.
Other articles in this series can be found at http://arthritis-research.com/series/pain The authors thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for funding the position of author GN (Scha 404/13-1).
"The purpose of the act was to 'safeguard authors against unremunerative transfers' and address 'the unequal bargaining position of authors, resulting in part from the impossibility of determining a work's value until it has been exploited,' " Judge Moskowitz wrote in his 10-page ruling.
In Section 4 we introduce a number of hypotheses about the relations between the position of authors in the coauthorship network and the future success of their publications.
In conclusion, we provided evidence for a strong relation between the position of authors in scientific collaboration networks and their future success in terms of citations.
Because science is increasingly done by large groups of people, agreements are made in advance to credit the contributions of members of these groups, including position of authors on a paper.
The following data was extracted from each article identified: research design (randomized controlled trial (RCT) or non-RCT), research field (bio-medical or non-biomedical), number of authors listed, position of corresponding author on manuscript (first, last, middle), as well as corresponding author's name, country of residence and email address.
Another option is to adjust citations in a paper differently depending on the position of each author, e.g. the first author may get credit for the full number of citations, while the second and the last author may get credit for half, the third may get credit for a third of the citations and so forth.
Planché held the position of stock author (in-house writer) at the Adelphi for a short period in 1821, before moving to a similar position at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.
On the contrary, Der Räuber is Walser's most rational and most daring work, a self-portrait and self-examination of absolute integrity, in which both the compiler of the medical history and his subject occupy the position of the author.
