The position of the first author has never been an issue. It's always reserved for the individual who wrote the paper and did significant experiments with respect to the article.
The issue has always been on the second author and the third/ last author (where there are more than 3 authors). Does the positioning really matters? In case of a student with two supervisors, between the first and the second supervisor who should be the second and who should be the third author? Does the second author have any advantage against the third or vice-versa?
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First supervisor is always the important author in a paper. For the case of supervisor students, it always vary depending on agreement between the parties. If there are two supervisors (x and y) and the student, a times the student can be author 1 then supervisor x and lastly y in the first paper and then second one student author 1 supervisor y author 2 and supervisor x author 3. In other cases some supervisors may prefer being supervisor 1.
For the case like Kenya, Commision of University Education (CUE) has provided guidelines for promotion. A lecturer will not be promoted on the number of papers published but based on publication points. A paper has 8 publication points and is shared by number of authors. the more the authors the less points one gets. The first three authors usually get more points. Refer to CUE website
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