I believe that most researchers around the world are collecting good data with high accuracy, but many of them need help for the final writing especially with the discussion.
Would you agree in helping somebody else, as a co-author, to prepare a high standard manuscript at the level that could be accepted for publication in a high standard journal?.
I can also help as a co-author and contribute with my own results within my field of research. Co-authoring and network building is in my opinion a vital component in conducting research.
Researchers are always in need of help in organizing the research components in writing but the problem is ....really difficult to give the manuscript to some one who is not part of the research. In my opinion, the co-author should also be the someone who involve in the research work. If the researcher has done some work alone, better to write the report and show some one he/she trust for proofreading.
I agree with Samuel,
I think it is up to the individual researcher to accept co-authors, but in my opinion a co-author has to contribute to the research to meet the criteria of co-authorship. Persons providing technical or editorial help (sjavascript:uch as proof reading) or providing data and other information should be thanked in an acknowledgement section.
Dear Jesper,
I believe that developing that preparing and developing a project are easier nowasays because we have access to a gareta number fo information.
For this reason, the most important difficult for most of us is to writte, submit and correct the final version of the mansucript.
Regards,
José Zanuncio
yes I agree because research by its nature is a collaborative works to find, explore and invent something and to solve a problem. even though data collection work is easier now a days, still it needs a co-authorship until to get up on the final results and to be sure our works.
Absolutely correct. Final write-ups adds cream and colour to the manuscript. It is important to have a finishing touch to your hard earned research. How much ever good your research is, if your manuscript is not in symbiosis with your work its of no use. Final write-ups includes grammatical check, report flow check, plagiarism check, alignment and numbering check, sentence frame work check, literature references correlation check and many other final checks. So defenitely it's important according to me
Dear all
I agree with Jesper that a co-author should contribute with some kind of research relevant topics and not only proof-reading, editorial etc.. Analyzing data is a creative process in itself and can discover new correlations etc.
Final editorial "polishing" of a manuscript however should not by itself entitle to a co-authorship.
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