I think every scientist must have different criteria for deciding who will be listed as a co-author. I have been offered to be listed as co-author in return for creating an illustration for the paper. (I declined to do the illustration, since a co-authorship isn&#39;t going to pay the bills). I suspect that this was the scientist&#39;s way of dealing with inadequate funding, and I don&#39;t blame him one bit for using the authorship as a form of payment, if that&#39;s what it takes.<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Raymond King <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3D1102%26L%3DSCIART-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D462207%26B%3D--0016367fa22085f30c049bc6afdd%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I am a biologist and completely agree with Britt.  You would have to make some pretty significant contributions to the article in order to be listed as a co-author or contributor other than illustrator.  Scientists tend to be very, very territorial about their published research.  Might not be fair but that&#39;s the way it is.</div>

<div>Ray </div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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