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I'm a co-author on a paper that was published in a Nature family journal some months ago because of my scientific contribution to the work presented there. I've discovered that the first author of this paper (let's call them Pat) has, in several instances, over several years, committed scientific fraud by manipulating raw data in other publications. I have no direct evidence that Pat has done anything wrong in the paper I'm on, but I assume they probably have, given their past conduct. I don't want my name to be associated with their name.
If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
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I'm a co-author on a paper that was published in a Nature family journal some months ago because of my scientific contribution to the work presented there. I've discovered that the first author of this paper (let's call them Pat) has, in several instances, over several years, committed scientific fraud by manipulating raw data in other publications. I have no direct evidence that Pat has done anything wrong in the paper I'm on, but I assume they probably have, given their past conduct. I don't want my name to be associated with their name.
If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
publications ethics authorship
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Do you think there would be any trust in scientific literature, if everybody can simply remove his authorship at any time.......????
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
3
Yeah. Papers with reputable names in the author list would tend to be ones I'd trust.
– toothnail
16 hours ago
1
there are harvard professors who conducted scientific fraud, reputation doesn't help, look jan hendrik schön or marc hauser, your mistake was to simply put your name on that paper without internally discussing, scrutinizing each others work, especially if the first author is unknown to you...
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
4
@Michael What is your point? How exactly would trust in scientific literature be affected by some authors removing their names (due to good reasons)?
– Orion
16 hours ago
1
@MichaelSchmidt Well, perhaps we are excited to read your answer - given your comments it should be enlightening...
– Solar Mike
15 hours ago
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I'm a co-author on a paper that was published in a Nature family journal some months ago because of my scientific contribution to the work presented there. I've discovered that the first author of this paper (let's call them Pat) has, in several instances, over several years, committed scientific fraud by manipulating raw data in other publications. I have no direct evidence that Pat has done anything wrong in the paper I'm on, but I assume they probably have, given their past conduct. I don't want my name to be associated with their name.
If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
publications ethics authorship
New contributor
I'm a co-author on a paper that was published in a Nature family journal some months ago because of my scientific contribution to the work presented there. I've discovered that the first author of this paper (let's call them Pat) has, in several instances, over several years, committed scientific fraud by manipulating raw data in other publications. I have no direct evidence that Pat has done anything wrong in the paper I'm on, but I assume they probably have, given their past conduct. I don't want my name to be associated with their name.
If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
publications ethics authorship
publications ethics authorship
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Do you think there would be any trust in scientific literature, if everybody can simply remove his authorship at any time.......????
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
3
Yeah. Papers with reputable names in the author list would tend to be ones I'd trust.
– toothnail
16 hours ago
1
there are harvard professors who conducted scientific fraud, reputation doesn't help, look jan hendrik schön or marc hauser, your mistake was to simply put your name on that paper without internally discussing, scrutinizing each others work, especially if the first author is unknown to you...
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
4
@Michael What is your point? How exactly would trust in scientific literature be affected by some authors removing their names (due to good reasons)?
– Orion
16 hours ago
1
@MichaelSchmidt Well, perhaps we are excited to read your answer - given your comments it should be enlightening...
– Solar Mike
15 hours ago
|
show 13 more comments
6
Do you think there would be any trust in scientific literature, if everybody can simply remove his authorship at any time.......????
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
3
Yeah. Papers with reputable names in the author list would tend to be ones I'd trust.
– toothnail
16 hours ago
1
there are harvard professors who conducted scientific fraud, reputation doesn't help, look jan hendrik schön or marc hauser, your mistake was to simply put your name on that paper without internally discussing, scrutinizing each others work, especially if the first author is unknown to you...
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
4
@Michael What is your point? How exactly would trust in scientific literature be affected by some authors removing their names (due to good reasons)?
– Orion
16 hours ago
1
@MichaelSchmidt Well, perhaps we are excited to read your answer - given your comments it should be enlightening...
– Solar Mike
15 hours ago
6
6
Do you think there would be any trust in scientific literature, if everybody can simply remove his authorship at any time.......????
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
Do you think there would be any trust in scientific literature, if everybody can simply remove his authorship at any time.......????
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
3
3
Yeah. Papers with reputable names in the author list would tend to be ones I'd trust.
– toothnail
16 hours ago
Yeah. Papers with reputable names in the author list would tend to be ones I'd trust.
– toothnail
16 hours ago
1
1
there are harvard professors who conducted scientific fraud, reputation doesn't help, look jan hendrik schön or marc hauser, your mistake was to simply put your name on that paper without internally discussing, scrutinizing each others work, especially if the first author is unknown to you...
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
there are harvard professors who conducted scientific fraud, reputation doesn't help, look jan hendrik schön or marc hauser, your mistake was to simply put your name on that paper without internally discussing, scrutinizing each others work, especially if the first author is unknown to you...
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
4
4
@Michael What is your point? How exactly would trust in scientific literature be affected by some authors removing their names (due to good reasons)?
– Orion
16 hours ago
@Michael What is your point? How exactly would trust in scientific literature be affected by some authors removing their names (due to good reasons)?
– Orion
16 hours ago
1
1
@MichaelSchmidt Well, perhaps we are excited to read your answer - given your comments it should be enlightening...
– Solar Mike
15 hours ago
@MichaelSchmidt Well, perhaps we are excited to read your answer - given your comments it should be enlightening...
– Solar Mike
15 hours ago
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If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
No one can say other than the journal, but personally I find your wish unreasonable. The fact that you are a coauthor of the paper is now a historical fact and as such not subject to change in my opinion. Keep in mind that even when a journal retracts a paper, they don’t pretend they never published it, but rather issue a statement saying they no longer endorse the validity of the paper. This preserves a record of the historical events that occurred and maintains a sense of continuity of the picture of reality the journal presents to its readers and to the world.
Similarly, if one of a paper’s coauthors no longer stands behind the validity of the paper, I would expect the journal would at most append to the article a statement saying that you no longer wish to be considered a coauthor of the paper. But it would be dishonest of the journal, and would be doing a disservice to its readers and to historical accuracy, to pretend you were never a coauthor by simply airbrushing your name off the author list.
So, my feeling is that you are free at any time to disavow your implicit endorsement of the paper that comes with being a coauthor. You may not even need the journal’s help to do that - for example, you can post a statement that you no longer endorse the validity of the paper on your personal web page. And you can also ask the journal to post the same notice online next to the published paper - hopefully they will find that a reasonable request, and perhaps it could motivate them to investigate whether the paper contains fraudulent data. But I think it’s dishonest to pretend you were never a coauthor of the paper, and unreasonable to ask the journal to carry on such a pretense.
Finally, keep in mind that “Pat”’s dishonesty is her own. If you unwittingly coauthored a paper in which she committed fraud, that would make you a victim, not a perpetrator, of misconduct. I don’t think it reflects poorly on you that you fell victim to such fraud (if indeed that is what happened), as long as your own work on the paper was done in good faith, and you had no knowledge of any fraud or other unethical behavior on the part of the other authors.
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And, in any case, after a bit of time, your name is preserved in any citations of the paper in other work. You can't change the past.
– Buffy
12 hours ago
add a comment |
You have to contact the editor, no other answer. Only they will tell you if it is possible for their publication.
You may find this helpful : How to withdraw ones name from an already published paper
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I would not contact the editor without discussing this issue before among the authors, contacting the editor is probably the very last option he should choose...imho
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
add a comment |
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If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
No one can say other than the journal, but personally I find your wish unreasonable. The fact that you are a coauthor of the paper is now a historical fact and as such not subject to change in my opinion. Keep in mind that even when a journal retracts a paper, they don’t pretend they never published it, but rather issue a statement saying they no longer endorse the validity of the paper. This preserves a record of the historical events that occurred and maintains a sense of continuity of the picture of reality the journal presents to its readers and to the world.
Similarly, if one of a paper’s coauthors no longer stands behind the validity of the paper, I would expect the journal would at most append to the article a statement saying that you no longer wish to be considered a coauthor of the paper. But it would be dishonest of the journal, and would be doing a disservice to its readers and to historical accuracy, to pretend you were never a coauthor by simply airbrushing your name off the author list.
So, my feeling is that you are free at any time to disavow your implicit endorsement of the paper that comes with being a coauthor. You may not even need the journal’s help to do that - for example, you can post a statement that you no longer endorse the validity of the paper on your personal web page. And you can also ask the journal to post the same notice online next to the published paper - hopefully they will find that a reasonable request, and perhaps it could motivate them to investigate whether the paper contains fraudulent data. But I think it’s dishonest to pretend you were never a coauthor of the paper, and unreasonable to ask the journal to carry on such a pretense.
Finally, keep in mind that “Pat”’s dishonesty is her own. If you unwittingly coauthored a paper in which she committed fraud, that would make you a victim, not a perpetrator, of misconduct. I don’t think it reflects poorly on you that you fell victim to such fraud (if indeed that is what happened), as long as your own work on the paper was done in good faith, and you had no knowledge of any fraud or other unethical behavior on the part of the other authors.
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And, in any case, after a bit of time, your name is preserved in any citations of the paper in other work. You can't change the past.
– Buffy
12 hours ago
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If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
No one can say other than the journal, but personally I find your wish unreasonable. The fact that you are a coauthor of the paper is now a historical fact and as such not subject to change in my opinion. Keep in mind that even when a journal retracts a paper, they don’t pretend they never published it, but rather issue a statement saying they no longer endorse the validity of the paper. This preserves a record of the historical events that occurred and maintains a sense of continuity of the picture of reality the journal presents to its readers and to the world.
Similarly, if one of a paper’s coauthors no longer stands behind the validity of the paper, I would expect the journal would at most append to the article a statement saying that you no longer wish to be considered a coauthor of the paper. But it would be dishonest of the journal, and would be doing a disservice to its readers and to historical accuracy, to pretend you were never a coauthor by simply airbrushing your name off the author list.
So, my feeling is that you are free at any time to disavow your implicit endorsement of the paper that comes with being a coauthor. You may not even need the journal’s help to do that - for example, you can post a statement that you no longer endorse the validity of the paper on your personal web page. And you can also ask the journal to post the same notice online next to the published paper - hopefully they will find that a reasonable request, and perhaps it could motivate them to investigate whether the paper contains fraudulent data. But I think it’s dishonest to pretend you were never a coauthor of the paper, and unreasonable to ask the journal to carry on such a pretense.
Finally, keep in mind that “Pat”’s dishonesty is her own. If you unwittingly coauthored a paper in which she committed fraud, that would make you a victim, not a perpetrator, of misconduct. I don’t think it reflects poorly on you that you fell victim to such fraud (if indeed that is what happened), as long as your own work on the paper was done in good faith, and you had no knowledge of any fraud or other unethical behavior on the part of the other authors.
1
And, in any case, after a bit of time, your name is preserved in any citations of the paper in other work. You can't change the past.
– Buffy
12 hours ago
add a comment |
If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
No one can say other than the journal, but personally I find your wish unreasonable. The fact that you are a coauthor of the paper is now a historical fact and as such not subject to change in my opinion. Keep in mind that even when a journal retracts a paper, they don’t pretend they never published it, but rather issue a statement saying they no longer endorse the validity of the paper. This preserves a record of the historical events that occurred and maintains a sense of continuity of the picture of reality the journal presents to its readers and to the world.
Similarly, if one of a paper’s coauthors no longer stands behind the validity of the paper, I would expect the journal would at most append to the article a statement saying that you no longer wish to be considered a coauthor of the paper. But it would be dishonest of the journal, and would be doing a disservice to its readers and to historical accuracy, to pretend you were never a coauthor by simply airbrushing your name off the author list.
So, my feeling is that you are free at any time to disavow your implicit endorsement of the paper that comes with being a coauthor. You may not even need the journal’s help to do that - for example, you can post a statement that you no longer endorse the validity of the paper on your personal web page. And you can also ask the journal to post the same notice online next to the published paper - hopefully they will find that a reasonable request, and perhaps it could motivate them to investigate whether the paper contains fraudulent data. But I think it’s dishonest to pretend you were never a coauthor of the paper, and unreasonable to ask the journal to carry on such a pretense.
Finally, keep in mind that “Pat”’s dishonesty is her own. If you unwittingly coauthored a paper in which she committed fraud, that would make you a victim, not a perpetrator, of misconduct. I don’t think it reflects poorly on you that you fell victim to such fraud (if indeed that is what happened), as long as your own work on the paper was done in good faith, and you had no knowledge of any fraud or other unethical behavior on the part of the other authors.
If I ask the journal to remove my name from the author list, will they simply do it?
No one can say other than the journal, but personally I find your wish unreasonable. The fact that you are a coauthor of the paper is now a historical fact and as such not subject to change in my opinion. Keep in mind that even when a journal retracts a paper, they don’t pretend they never published it, but rather issue a statement saying they no longer endorse the validity of the paper. This preserves a record of the historical events that occurred and maintains a sense of continuity of the picture of reality the journal presents to its readers and to the world.
Similarly, if one of a paper’s coauthors no longer stands behind the validity of the paper, I would expect the journal would at most append to the article a statement saying that you no longer wish to be considered a coauthor of the paper. But it would be dishonest of the journal, and would be doing a disservice to its readers and to historical accuracy, to pretend you were never a coauthor by simply airbrushing your name off the author list.
So, my feeling is that you are free at any time to disavow your implicit endorsement of the paper that comes with being a coauthor. You may not even need the journal’s help to do that - for example, you can post a statement that you no longer endorse the validity of the paper on your personal web page. And you can also ask the journal to post the same notice online next to the published paper - hopefully they will find that a reasonable request, and perhaps it could motivate them to investigate whether the paper contains fraudulent data. But I think it’s dishonest to pretend you were never a coauthor of the paper, and unreasonable to ask the journal to carry on such a pretense.
Finally, keep in mind that “Pat”’s dishonesty is her own. If you unwittingly coauthored a paper in which she committed fraud, that would make you a victim, not a perpetrator, of misconduct. I don’t think it reflects poorly on you that you fell victim to such fraud (if indeed that is what happened), as long as your own work on the paper was done in good faith, and you had no knowledge of any fraud or other unethical behavior on the part of the other authors.
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And, in any case, after a bit of time, your name is preserved in any citations of the paper in other work. You can't change the past.
– Buffy
12 hours ago
add a comment |
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And, in any case, after a bit of time, your name is preserved in any citations of the paper in other work. You can't change the past.
– Buffy
12 hours ago
1
1
And, in any case, after a bit of time, your name is preserved in any citations of the paper in other work. You can't change the past.
– Buffy
12 hours ago
And, in any case, after a bit of time, your name is preserved in any citations of the paper in other work. You can't change the past.
– Buffy
12 hours ago
add a comment |
You have to contact the editor, no other answer. Only they will tell you if it is possible for their publication.
You may find this helpful : How to withdraw ones name from an already published paper
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I would not contact the editor without discussing this issue before among the authors, contacting the editor is probably the very last option he should choose...imho
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
add a comment |
You have to contact the editor, no other answer. Only they will tell you if it is possible for their publication.
You may find this helpful : How to withdraw ones name from an already published paper
6
I would not contact the editor without discussing this issue before among the authors, contacting the editor is probably the very last option he should choose...imho
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
add a comment |
You have to contact the editor, no other answer. Only they will tell you if it is possible for their publication.
You may find this helpful : How to withdraw ones name from an already published paper
You have to contact the editor, no other answer. Only they will tell you if it is possible for their publication.
You may find this helpful : How to withdraw ones name from an already published paper
answered 19 hours ago
Solar MikeSolar Mike
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I would not contact the editor without discussing this issue before among the authors, contacting the editor is probably the very last option he should choose...imho
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
add a comment |
6
I would not contact the editor without discussing this issue before among the authors, contacting the editor is probably the very last option he should choose...imho
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
6
6
I would not contact the editor without discussing this issue before among the authors, contacting the editor is probably the very last option he should choose...imho
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
I would not contact the editor without discussing this issue before among the authors, contacting the editor is probably the very last option he should choose...imho
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
add a comment |
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Do you think there would be any trust in scientific literature, if everybody can simply remove his authorship at any time.......????
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
3
Yeah. Papers with reputable names in the author list would tend to be ones I'd trust.
– toothnail
16 hours ago
1
there are harvard professors who conducted scientific fraud, reputation doesn't help, look jan hendrik schön or marc hauser, your mistake was to simply put your name on that paper without internally discussing, scrutinizing each others work, especially if the first author is unknown to you...
– Michael Schmidt
16 hours ago
4
@Michael What is your point? How exactly would trust in scientific literature be affected by some authors removing their names (due to good reasons)?
– Orion
16 hours ago
1
@MichaelSchmidt Well, perhaps we are excited to read your answer - given your comments it should be enlightening...
– Solar Mike
15 hours ago