Over at my other weblog I have been doing a "10 questions" series. Here are the ones I've done so far:
John Derbyshire of National Review and author of Prime Obsession
Armand Leroi of Imperial College and author of Mutants
Warren Treadgold of Saint Louis University and author of A History of Byzantine State and Society
Dan Sperber of Institut Jen Nicod and author of Explaining Culture
Ken Miller of Brown University and author of Finding Darwin's God
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There's been a lot of discussion online lately about the relative importance of the position of an author name. Is it more impressive to be a first author on a report? If so, how much?
Like the title says: Happy New Year!
Looking back at the list of top scited papers on scirate.com, shows some good fun indeed:
Nautilus, Nature's blog for authors, has a guest post by Robin Rose on long author lists, entitled "What's an author?".
Dr. Isis considers a downside to having coauthors and an ethical question it raises: