Hi, Heidi,
While I’ve probably said enough on the subject or forced gift signatures, one thing you wrote caught my eye.
You wrote: “we might ask why someone wants unsullied authorship of a paper.”
I have not questioned and do not question is the importance of co-authorship and co-authorship networks. The ONLY issue I have raised is that of pirate authors who do NOT made a contribution to the papers they demand to sign, but use position power and threats to demand signature credit.
Finding some way to deal with this problem is not a matter of “unsullied authorship.” It’s a matter of crediting authors vs. crediting pirates. It’s a matter of crediting genuine contributors vs. crediting robbers.
You are quite right to note “… research into how 'co-authorship networks' describe the extent of research communities. There is also the issue of the knowledge itself and how best to let it loose it upon the world. An attribution-greedy co-author might offer a foot up in terms of literature search ranking.”
That’s quite right, but that research doesn’t deal, say, with department heads who demand that employees credit them as co-authors on articles they have had nothing to do with. That isn’t attribution-greedy co-authorship. People who don’t write do not show up in research on co-authorship networks.
People who use position power to extort authorship credit from those over whom they can exercise career control don’t usually participate in real research networks. Few researchers work with people who extort co-authorship credit without contributing. That’s the point of extortion: forcing someone to do something they would not do unless forced.
At this point, I will depart from the threads on these issues.
Yours,
Ken
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Heidi Overhill wrote:
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Just to muddy the waters further we might ask why someone wants unsullied authorship of a paper. There seems to be certain amount of research into how "co-authorship networks" describe the extent of research communities. There is also the issue of the knowledge itself and how best to let it loose it upon the world. An attribution-greedy co-author might offer a foot up in terms of literature search ranking. Unraveling the linked issues of fairness, money, and ideas seems like an enormous task.
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