{"606596":{"#nid":"606596","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Who gets credit? Survey digs into the thorny question of authorship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Walsh, professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, May 29, article\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u0026ldquo;\u003C\/em\u003EWho gets credit? Survey digs into the thorny question of authorship.\u0026rdquo; The School of Public Policy is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrevious surveys have focused on one field or just a few, and they have looked at a limited range of contributions, says John Walsh, a sociologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The authors of the latest study \u0026ldquo;really get down to serious detail\u0026rdquo;, he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWalsh notes that there are no recognized authorship standards across all scientific disciplines: different fields have different norms. For instance, in some subfields of physics, it has become common to have\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/physics-paper-sets-record-with-more-than-5-000-authors-1.17567\u0022\u003Ethousands of authors on a research paper\u003C\/a\u003E. But in biology, author lists tend to be much shorter, Walsh says.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-05280-0\u0022\u003ENature\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Ewebsite.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-05-30 15:00:26","changed_gmt":"2018-05-30 21:26:29","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"college of engineering; ISyE; fellowships; grad students; student awards; orise; cdc","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-05280-0","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"332881":{"id":"332881","type":"image","title":"John Walsh","body":null,"created":"1449245133","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:05:33","changed":"1475895044","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:44","alt":"John Walsh","file":{"fid":"200414","name":"johnwalsh.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnwalsh_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnwalsh_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10025,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/johnwalsh_0.jpg?itok=_1zzJE-o"}}},"media_ids":["332881"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"95551","name":"citation recongition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}