Co-authorship and Credit
After the project ends: the papers written later are where credit quietly disappears
Funding stops, people disperse, and the secondary analyses get written by whoever still has time.
Co-authorship and Credit
Setting author roles and credit expectations before the work starts, not after.
Co-authorship and Credit
Co-authorship and Credit
Presenting joint work: send the person whose career the platform will change
Conference platforms are a distributable resource, and they get distributed by default to whoever has travel funding.
Co-authorship and Credit
Who writes the first draft: that person decides what the paper argues
The first draft sets the framing, and every later comment is a reaction to a structure someone else already chose.
Co-authorship and Credit
Acknowledgement is not credit: if it does not appear in a database, it does not count
Thanking people in a footnote costs nothing and delivers nothing to their career.
Co-authorship and Credit
Authorship across borders: the person who collected the data is not automatically an author, and that is the problem
The most common inequity in international collaboration is not malice. It is a default that nobody examines.
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