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In the abstract I agree. It would be nice to have a movie-credits like list of authors: (...) In practice it wouldn't work.
The fastest growing international research journal does precisely what I suggest. Here is an example taken out of the PLoS One journal:
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HN. Performed the experiments: HN. Analyzed the data: HN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN DK MR JAPH.
Wrote the paper: HN DK MR JAPH.
Reference: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006852
Notice how there is a bit that says "Wrote the paper". Well, if the paper was indeed written by the student, we can say so right there.
Oh! And this can be done with existing journals and conference proceedings, right now.
Aug 31, 2009, 7:08:05 AM
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