The paper was presented (oral presentation) in Medical Education Conference, CUMEC 2018, in which 6 authors were included. It included the people who did not contributed to the paper. Principal investigator's name was put as a second author. The paper presenter put her name as a first author.
Later, the same paper (same title) was published in open access journal in October 2018. But this time Principal investigator's name was mentioned as first author, removal of some authors and inclusion of one author who just involved in article writing.
Hi,
The first thing to do is to get the original version of the paper, as was first prepared by the authors. If the paper was not included in the proceedings of the conference there is not need to pursue the problem there, because this is more of a hear/say thing. The real problem is the journal where the article was published. You could approach the editor with your complaint of the authors' presentation, and provide him with the original version of the paper.
I find that the ordering of the authors is immaterial. Why? Well, the quick answer is that there is NO fixed rule about HOW the ordering should be organized, if at all. (And if you were to tell me that I am wrong, I have 500+ papers to contradict you.) This is evident by simply looking around you in a variety of journals in a few distinct fields - there is NO fixed sequencing principle in the world of publishing, such as a "first author". Yes, there are exceptions, but that proves my point - that there is no UNIVERSAL rule to decide the ordering. Write - and publish your papers at will - but do not bring up this tedious and boring question once more.
You are writing in passive voice (was) so it is not clear who made these decisions. Who made the decision to include people who were not involved? Who had the authority to put the P. I.'s name second? Who made the changes when the actual paper was published?
Sounds like possibly the "corresponding author" made some decisions without talking to others on the writing team. Occasionally journals get these things wrong, but they generally publish the names as told to them by the writers.
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