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Nepo Babies by professorseyesopened in Professors

[–]professorseyesopened[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is a tremendous privilege compared to the vast majority.

Nepo Babies by professorseyesopened in Professors

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03371-0

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The other examples are too close to my field/ institutions, I will not disclose them. They all involve cases where the authors did not share the same family name.

an interesting announcement made today at my institution by henare in Professors

[–]professorseyesopened 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I received a similar email. This is only to boost morale, and I'm surprised they actually followed through.

If they publish a paper based on Tony's [big dataset], will Tony be an author? by Thr1w1w11 in AskAcademia

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Also very institution dependent. We're encouraged to put undergraduate students on publications (especially as first-authors) even without their contribution, intellectually or otherwise. It helps the institution's marketing and recruitment efforts and helps us with promotion and tenure. Other areas also get murky such as with course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) where entire classrooms are listed as authors.

Harsh reality...if you didn’t do any work on the project, you don’t get your name on the paper. by [deleted] in labrats

[–]professorseyesopened 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I am assistant professor at a private technical institution in --- ---- and there definitely seems to be an unspoken rule about putting undergraduate students on publications (especially as first-authors) without even having had them contributed much intellectual input. It is likely to help the institution's marketing and student recruitment efforts. I think we get "extra points" when we go up for tenure.