@Km Arti

Thanks alot for your answer, but how and from where to get it back. Can you explain to me the sequence and the steps for that.

The first step is to write to the Journal Editor raising your complaint regarding disputed authorship. The Editor will guide you on the steps to follow thereafter.

@Allan Abwunza

Many thanks

It is not an easy case.

The first thing you need to do is determine if you are the author of a work which is the contribution for publication in the meaning of authorship law. If you are an author of a work by authorship law, you are protected by copyright. You should be a co-author of a paper.

If the contribution to published research was of a different nature, it was not a work within the meaning of copyright law, you should check the ethical regulations in force in your scientific institution and in your country, which regulate the rules of the attribution of authorship of scientific works.

Look for a code of ethics for scientists which is obligate in your country. Every creator of intellectual contributions to research has the right to authorship of a paper. It is common rules for each ethical code in each country.

This an example form polish ethical law:

3.3. AUTHORSHIP AND PUBLICATION PRACTICES

1. Researcher should publish the results and interpretations of his or her research in an honest, transparent and accurate manner, so that other researchers could elaborate on the findings or replicate them.

2. Authorship must be based solely on substantial intellectual contribution to the research. This includes: significant contribution in initiating the scientific idea, formulating conceptions, designing research, significant share in data acquisition, in the analysis and interpretations of data and in drafting the article or revising it critically for intellectual content.

3. Acquisition of funding, provision of technical assistance or materials, the collection of data, general supervision of the research group, by themselves, do not justify authorship. All authors are fully responsible for the content of the publication unless it is specified they are responsible only for a specific part of the study within their speciality. When listing authors and their affiliations, it is appropriate to mention what was the nature of their contribution to the research.

https://instytucja.pan.pl/index.php/kodeks-etyki-pracownika-naukowego

You should report any violations of your rights to the ethics committee at your research institution. The procedure of report such case should be regulate in ethical code too.

A letter to the editor may not give the intended result. The editor may not want to interfere in matters of copyright.

I hope it is helpfull.

@Anna Chorazewska

Many thanks. What if i have a copy of this work as adraft and this copy was sent to journal when i was the corrsponding author. But when the corrsponding author was not me, the new one wrote my name in the firstly sent manuscript to journal. But during the revision process he replaced me by his friend.

A similar case was settled by the Polish Ethical Committee. The fact that someone was listed as a co-author of the publication in the first unpublished version of the article, even it was sent to the journal, is not sufficient to show authorship of a research and a paper.

In that case, the explaination of a defendor was that in the first version of the article, the removed co-author had the status of the guest author or gift author, because he was the head of the research group and he did not actually conduct that research.

The Polish Ethics Committee indicated in such case that a researcher claiming his copyrights should show his contribution to the research. Must show that he contributed to significant contribution research in initiating the scientific idea, formulating conceptions, designing research, significant share in data acquisition, in the analysis and interpretations of data and in drafting the article or revising it critically for intellectual content.

Summarizing a fact you were a co-author of first verion of a paper is not conclusive, you must additionally show your contribution to the research: documentation of your contribution to the research, first versions of notes, etc.

Write to the editor of the publishing company and bring this in their notice and document in written communication. The renowned publishing company will definitely guide you with the remedy. They have full department handling such issues meticulously.

@Anna Chorazewska

Thank you very much for your time and your explaination.

@Vikas Kohli 

Thanks alot for your answer

In addition to what my colleagues have indicated always know that your intellectual property right for your authorship still stands as long as you have it in fixed form as written e.g notes, pictures taken, video or audio taken that captures the date of the original ideas that you submitted and are reflecting in the published work. Given the scenario that the co-author is changed and irreversible, you could find an intellectual property lawyer to file suit against the main author. With proof, you stand a chance to gain proceeds from the published work.

I am not sure for which jurisdiction you are seeking a guidance, but in Pakistan, there is a copyright Board which oversees & resolve such disputes after conducting enquirers.

Concerning this discussion, dear researchers, could you be so kind and support my initiative by filling the following questionnaire:

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I have to explain. I belong to an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers experienced in law and natural sciences. We are pleased to share with you a questionnaire entitled "Team research and respect for intellectual property rights to a team member’s scientific creation".

The main purpose of this questionnaire is to evaluate the common rules that are guiding the assignment of authorship and to highlight some common practices that are generally followed in scientific publishing by different laboratories, universities, or research groups in a particular scientific area. This questionnaire is designed for researchers conducting team research (e.g. intra-, inter- and multidisciplinary teams) in the area of applied and natural sciences.

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