Authors (how many, order)

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Werthmüller, D., R. Rochlitz, O. Castillo-Reyes, and L. Heagy, 2021, Towards an open-source landscape for 3-D CSEM modelling: Geophysical Journal International, 227(1), 644--659

https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab238

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Authors (how many, order) #2

Closed prisae closed 4 years ago

prisae commented 5 years ago

Things to discuss:

Author order (probably to be discussed at the end)
How many authors per code?

I thought about one author per code, which would give five authors. But then some of the projects are bigger and might have more contributors, so we could think about max. 2 authors per code, which then would give max. 10 authors? Opinions?

Moouuzi commented 5 years ago

I'd prefer one author per code for the following reasons.

Most probably, only one auhor per code (Octaivo, Lindsay, (Kerry or someone else) and me) will contribute to this specific paper.
Adding further authors for contributing to the code devlopment in the past but not in particular to this comparison paper would be rather poor scientific practice in my opinion. Of course they are to be acknowledged by citing the corresponding software papers and in the acknowledgements! If someone else from the other groups will participate in the work for this paper, I'm of course fine with adding more authors.
In general, two authors for each project would not be enough at all without missing someone who has contributed to the software.

ocastilloreyes commented 5 years ago

I also prefer one author per code. Although I have no problem that we include more authors. The important thing is that our contribution (and of course each code contribution) is not blurred.

prisae commented 5 years ago

I think one author per code is fine, where there is a clear leader, such as in the case of Raphael, Octavio, and me. In the case of SimPEG, having Lindsey and Seogi might be justified, as both are very involved into the EM side of things. Having said that, there is the thing of including the boss (project leader) - is that not in issue with you guys? Hence, your bosses do not expect to be included?

lheagy commented 5 years ago

:+1: I think one author per code is fine, and there are no concerns about bosses expecting to be included on my end.

The only thing I would suggest is that if we do request help from other community members and their specific contribution to the paper ends up being substantial that we re-visit on a case-by-case basis.

Otherwise, we can be generous in our acknowledgements to make sure folks are recognized for their more general contributions to the open ecosystem

Moouuzi commented 5 years ago

Regarding Dieter's comment, no concern about bosses also from my side.

ocastilloreyes commented 5 years ago

In my case, no problem/concern about bosses