I worked with a graduate student who did some research, participated in discussion, and collected data. He wrote some short pieces of the paper. Since the he graduated and his parts of the work are almost gone or completely changed because of revisions. He has not been involved in the paper for months and has not done any revisions since the paper was sent for publication. Should he get co-authorship?
His name should be moved to the acknowledgements section if there is any residue of his contribution. E.g., "Parts of the data were collected by ...". Otherwise do not feel guilty about removing his name.
The stage at which this student stopped working for his paper awards him some point, however, this is only true if part of the study was published then. Sounds like much has been done without his input and so, further publications from the same work should not consider listing his name. In a big way, if this is the first manuscript, his name should appear. His intellectually participation should be acknowledged.
I would probably keep the student on as a co-author but move him/her to the end.
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