An unconventional question, would be grateful for thoughts. As the PI of a qualitative research study that was conducted independently, together with two research assistants, I am collaborating with an institution that wishes to carry out secondary analysis of our original data. The institution claims that the head of their research team will be the PI, and I assume first author, of the published manuscript, since they are leading the secondary analysis. They were not involved in any way in the original research or implementation of the study.
My question is, what rights does the PI of the original research study and research assistants have to authorship in this case? Would I be relegated to middle author even though I conceived, led and designed the original research study? How does authorship of secondary analysis work? Any guidance gratefully appreciated. Thank you.
It is normal that papers are published by secondary analysis when the data and first analysis is already published and therefore citation is provided, if the data is not published then co-authorship should be provided, but is not clear to me who should be first author, the one who had the ideas for the data acquisition or the one who had the ideas for the data interpretation and development of models with the data. I think the one who had the ideas for the model deserve a little bit more credit, i think of the history of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, Brahe developed the ideas for the data acquisition and did the hard work to get it, but Kepler developed the interpretation and did the hard work of data analysis, as we know Kepler have almost all the credit for his laws of planetary motion, which is not fair for Brahe, but maybe we can may the case that both share giant credit maybe Kepler a little more. In the situation, you are in Brahe's position, but if you also contribute in enhancing the interpretation of the data you have even more credit. So i don't know the answer probably it depends on weighting the whole contributions.
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