Giving Techs Credit

[C.J. Fuller]

In article <873634077.31273 at dejanews.com>, kathleen at mail.idt.net wrote:

>A recent thread made reference to (but didn't really deal
>with) several aspects of technicians working in research
>positions.  I'm interested in this on behalf of my sister
>who is a nurse and worked for years on drug-company sponsored
>research at a NY hospital.  An article on the research
>was just published and she was not given credit in the
>publication.  Do technicians normally get credit?  Are there
>established procedures for correcting this?  Should she
>write to the journal (J of Bone & Joint Surgery)?
>I would appreciate any direction you can provide.
>
>Kathleen Kelly
>Newark, A City on the Rise
>


Kathleen-

It all depends on the principal investigator.  My pre-grad school boss, a
man, gave liberal co-authorships to the techs, nurses, and statisticians
who worked on projects.  My grad school mentor, a female, was the same
way.  In my post-doc dept, the techs were lucky to be mentioned in the
acknowledgments.  I sneaked one tech in as a co-author on an abstract that
was presented at a meeting one year.  My earlier experiences have
influenced me to at least give acknowledgment, if not co-authorship, to
the techs and co-workers.  Someday they may need those publictions for job
and grad school purposes, as I did some years ago.

Cindy

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