While in lab-based disciplines co-authorship is the norm, there are “individual(istic)” disciplines where it is sometimes still frowned upon. In general, co-authorship is not bad per se, and there is nothing negative in being the 4th or even the 99th author, especially if we are talking about a highly cited paper.
Month: September 2019
Becoming an Academic: 4 reasons why you should read Inger Mewburn’s new book
![books close up](https://echer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/blur-books-close-up-159866-710x335.jpg)
If you’ve ever been discouraged by the somewhat challenging prospects of getting an academic job (I mean the real, permanent one) after getting your PhD, you may want to de-stress yourself with Inger Mewburn’s new book Becoming an Academic: How to get through Grad School and Beyond. […]
Helping each other write better: ECHER’s first Academic Writing Clinic
![canva](https://echer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Screenshot-2019-09-01-17.02.50-710x335.png)
A wise scholar once told me that the difference between being able to recognize a good piece of writing and producing one ourselves is akin to something like watching the Olympics and participating in them. Fitting or not, I always found this metaphor […]