Is there any internationally approved guidelines available regarding the authorship criteria? How to decide the first author and corresponding author? If two researchers contributed equally, but journal's authorship criteria allows only to be the first or corresponding author how to decide who will the first author and who will be the correspondent author? Who can communicate a manuscript? Any eligibility?
If two researchers contributed equally to research article (50-50), the person who becomes the first author should be:
1) the person who own the idea at the early stages of the paper, or
2) should be the person who invited the second author to partner with him for the research, or
3) should be one of the authors who has a stronger international research track record, since top journals like to publish the research of established authors who are already famous in their field.
But, it is doubtful that co-authors contribute equally to a completed research project. In reality, the contributions of each co-author is never 50-50, maybe close to it.
Hope this helps!
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Peterson
I appreciate and thank both Dr. Graham and Dr. Ozili for the responses. Both the answers are quite helpful to me.
Thank you
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