Attribution of Mentored Research
You are writing a book chapter describing recent advances in your field. One of your graduate students made significant progress. Using ideas that you conceived, he designed and ran experiments without supervision, interpreted the results without assistance, and wrote several important papers that were published citing him as the primary author and you as the only coauthor. In your book, should you attribute these advances to you first and then him? To him first and then you? Or to him and unnamed associates?
K5R says: In most book chapters that I am familiar with, the authors use "we" or "in our laboratory" or "in collaboration with X, we found...." rather than using one person's name or the author's own name. Research is always a plural rather than singular effort.
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