##Data creation and authorship
Goals for this lesson
- Understand how authorship is allocated in scientific research products
- Discuss data sharing in the context of authorship
Today, we are going to discuss scientific authorship in the context of data creation, sharing and reuse. First we're going to discuss scientific authorship in general, and then we're going to extend what we've talked about to situations where data from a previously published source is being reused in a subsequent paper. It just so happens that the universe has provided some discussion materials for us through a twitter storm from last Friday. Yay for twitter storms! It all started with a New England Journal of Medicine editorial. As you probably guessed, I took exception to the editorial on my blog.
So, how does data sharing fit into scientific authorship? Is using data produced by others good science?
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>@cbahlai 3 sig contributions of the 5 elements: -concept/idea -funding -data -analysis/tools -writing Tweak ± 1 as situation requries
— Alex Bond (@thelabandfield) January 25, 2016
NB: Both blog posts I've linked have some interesting counter-arguments and/or discussions in the comments section- be sure to skim through those as well in preparation for this discussion.
Resources:
- Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
- Determining authorship for a peer-reviewed scientific publication by Chris Buddle for a more plain-language, insect-science relevant summary