Is This an Honor?
Author(s):
Caroline Whitbeck, Ph.D.
A colleague from another (non-English speaking) country asks you for help in preparing an article for a U.S. journal. After you offer comments that are mostly editorial in nature, the colleague insists that you should be a co-author. You do not think your contribution warrants co-authorship. You are too junior to be well known, but you are at a prestigious university. You do not want to seem rude.
What can and should you do?
Cite this page:
Caroline Whitbeck, Ph.D.
"Is This an Honor?"
Online Ethics Center for Engineering
9/10/2006 1:45:07 PM
National Academy of Engineering
Accessed: Friday, August 29, 2008
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