The oldest whodunnit in the world
The oldest whodunnit in the world
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世界上最古老的侦探小说
作者：
B. Wood
最近的一篇主要文章详细介绍了仲裁科学论文作者身份所涉及的一些困难，并得出结论认为，定义作者身份规则的尝试“注定会失败”（Nature 387, 831 831; 1997）。尽管这可能是真的，但如果期刊只是要求简要说明每位作者的贡献，那么围绕作者身份的一些棘手问题就可以得到缓解。作者在确定作者身份时所采用的规则至少会是明确的。例如，一篇关于使用新型化石探测器发现以前未知的原始人类的论文（类似于主要文章中描述的）可能包括以下声明：CM：化石发现，形态测定，主要作者； PW：地层学、评估论文； MC：同位素测年； LG：CRD（碳置换检测器）的发明者； PC：资金、智力贡献、共同撰写的论文。
A recent leading article detailed some of the difficulties involved in arbitrating authorship of scientific papers and concluded that attempts to define rules for authorship are “doomed to fail”(Nature 387, 831 831; 1997). Although this is probably true, some of the thornier issues surrounding authorship could be mitigated if journals simply required the contribution of each author to be briefly stated. The rules the authors had applied in determining authorship would then at least be explicit.For example, a paper (similar to that described in the leading article) on the discovery of a previously unknown hominid using a novel fossil detector might include the following statement: CM: fossil discovery, morphometry, principal author; PW: stratigraphy, assessed paper; MC: isotopic dating; LG: inventor of CRD (carbon replacement detector); PC: funding, intellectual contributions, co-authored paper.