gemwel:currentsinbiology:Yep, common and not the most honest practice. The feeling of resentment can
gemwel:currentsinbiology:Yep, common and not the most honest practice. The feeling of resentment can linger…‘My professor demands to be listed as an author on many of my papers’Scientists are meant to be scrupulously honest and objective. Acting unethically or misrepresenting information could spell the end of a career. Except, there’s one instance where it’s acceptable for scientists to lie: when fraudulently claiming authorship of a paper.Too often, researchers attach their names to reports when they have contributed nothing at all to the work. The problem gets worse the higher up the academic ladder you go. The “publish or perish” motto of academic careers is true – and professors and group leaders take it seriously. Too often, researchers attach their names to reports when they have contributed nothing at all to the work.’Photograph: AlamyAt least you got to publish your research. All my academic PIs took my research and gave it to other people to publish without my name on the paper. I even attended an international conference where credit for my research was given to someone else by my PI during his talk (he still works in this field). There are 6-10 published papers of my PhD research without my name on any of them. This university has since implemented a formal policy that all research belongs to the PI, not the undergraduate/masters/PhD/post-doc that did the work.Reminds me of when my thesis idea was stolen by a Harvard professor. I didn’t even get a chance to do the work, I just made the mistake of telling him what I wanted to study (I was attempting to network with him, get him to be my new mentor/advisor back when I was trying to get into Harvard’s Religious Studies grad program). When it happened I was greatly disappointed, but I’d read too many articles about students having their brilliant ideas stolen by higher ups that I wasn’t too surprised in the end. -- source link
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