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Scientists have discovered the earliest retraction of a scientific work, back in the Upper Paleolithic. Check this out at Retraction Watch .
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Authorship: Who gets credit?
"Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com Several things have gotten me thinking about issues of authorship. I've been publishing quite a bit with student co-authors lately, so this is an active topic with me and my students. In fact, authorship is most commonly a topic of concern when students are involved. Should students get authorship credit on published articles? How is this determined? Many professional societies have explicit principles and guidelines about this. The Society for American Archaeology evidently does not have any guidelines. The American Anthropological Association has a brief statement in its Code of Ethics stating that faculty should not steal data and credit from deserving students. Okay, but that is not particularly helpful. I recently came across some personal authorship guidelines I had written up a few years ago. They correspond to my normal practice, and they agree with pub...