Publication and data ownership
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Publication and data ownership
What is this about?
A student is working with his co-students and his professor on an experiment. The student becomes impatient with the checks the professor want to do to make sure everything is correct. He writes and submits a manuscript on their joint work with himself as first author and the other students and the professor as co-author, unbeknownst to the authors. The editor of the journal becomes suspicious due to the writing style and the fact that the professor is not included in the email, and calls the professor.
