The position of first authorship is not commonly given to someone just because he/she is the most senior scientist or most senior graduate student in a lab or research program.
The survey included questions regarding authorship order, decision of authorship position on the manuscript (first, last, middle author) and author affiliation (position at institution).
We included a paper for analysis if even one author, regardless of authorship position (i.e., lead author, last author, etc)., was affiliated with an institution in a country in the geographical Asia-Pacific region (including countries in Central and Southeast Asia).
(See, for example, Wilcox's perspective on authorship in the Next Wave's The Ethics of Authorship feature).
There's a theoretical position behind these choices – a principled rejection of the machinery of celebrity, a wish to demystify the role of authorship – and, if pressed, they'll admit this is so.
Others also claim pride of authorship.
The question of authorship has now compounded those questions.
The movie's ingenious mainspring is the problem of authorship.
Doesn't this dilute the concept of authorship?
But the question of authorship hit a nerve.
