[Taxacom] Ethics? Whose name should be written on a publication as an Author?

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 12:27 PM 2/23/2010, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:
>* this kind of behaviour does leave a paper trail, however, and students 
>evaluating potential supervisors are advised to favour those who are often 
>second or third authors in work they've done with their graduate students.

Agreed.  Often, peers evaluating such profs for tenure or promotion notice 
such things, too.

Tom

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Curator of the Neil A. Harriman Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
800 Algoma Blvd.
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:     lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-1002

Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and 
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.

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