====== Research Environment: Grants & Authorship ======

====Scientific Publications====
|  The currency of Science  | The scientific paper appearing in a peer-reviewed publication is the "currency" of science.|
|  Date of publication, reception, acceptance  |In addition to having a particular date of publication, many journals publish the date a paper was first received by the editors, before the revies and revision process started.|
|  Ethics - Misaccreditation (plagiarism)  | It is unethical to repeat verbatim from another author without proper accreditation. \\It is unethical to accredit oneself with work done by others.|


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====Authorship====
|  Authorlist  |Either alphabetical or in order of level of contribution.|
|  Alphabetical list   |All authors contributed at a similar level (at least in theory).|
|  First author  |This is the main author of the paper, that is, the person who: \\ - is the driving force behind the work presented \\ - is the author of the ideas presented in the paper \\ - did most of the work and implementation. \\ Ideally it is also the person who wrote most of the paper.|
|  Reality  |First author is often a professor who sticks their name on every paper published by a laboratory or department or group.|
|  Second author  | This is the "second person in command" for the work presented in the paper|
|  Third, fourth, fifth, etc. author  | Typically a list of people who did some of the work; sometimes these are also people who had a hand in the writing of the paper, but very often they are not (mostly for practical reasons).|
|  Extremely long authorship lists  | Becoming increasingly common in group projects|
|  Last author  |Increasingly advisors/professors are putting themselves at the end of the authors' list on papers describing the work of their students.|
|  Acknowledgment vs. author?  | If a person is not the authors' list (for whatever reason) but contributed something to the work, it is customary to put in a thank-you note in the Acknowledgment section.|

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