Developing a framework does not automatically grant authorship on derivative work.
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Discussions on academic practices indicate that contributing foundational elements or funding does not automatically secure authorship on subsequent projects.
It is unclear whether or not grant winning should count towards authorship credit in the sciences. In this paper, I argue that under certain circumstances grant winning can count for credit as an author on subsequent works. It is a mistake to think that grant winning is always irrelevant to the correct attribution of authorship.
# Can I claim authorship on work I wasn't personally involved in, that uses a framework I developed for my research?
Tags: authorship
- Score: 25
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- Answers: 6
- Answered: yes
- Asked by: Optimist (389 rep)
- Asked: 2016-11-28
- Edited: 2016-11-29
- Site: academia
## Question
As a postdoc I joined an existing project of a PhD student. I made significant contributions to his code and developed an entire framework X in the code necessary for my research. Developing framework X took at least four months. After I finished the project and was put on a new project, he initiated collaborations with people from other labs using framework X (not including me). Without framework X this research would not have been possible (unless he would have implemented it himself).
Now I noticed that they are writing up an article about their collaboration. So far I have not been contacted as a co-author. My question is: should I claim co-authorship based on the fact that I developed framework X, which formed an important and necessary part of the code to obtain their results.
## Answers
### Answer by Stuart Golodetz (score: 37 [ACCEPTED])
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