AUTHORSHIP — Anybody who made a substantial contribution to the research or the preparation of
a manuscript will be included as an author on the resulting manuscript. Whether or
not work done qualifies as a (substantial) contribution will be determined by Dr.
Evelien Bunnik.
The responsibilities of authorship include approval of the submitted
version of the manuscript (and any substantially modified version) and agreeing to
be personally accountable for your own contribution as well as ensuring that
questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even those in
which you were not personally involved, are appropriately investigated and resolved.
The Bunnik lab uses the common
first-last-author-emphasis norm to assign the
order of authorship. The order depends on the contribution of the author while
simultaneously valuing the first and last position of the authorship order most. The
first author is the person who contributed most to the work (experiments and writing)
and who is expected to draft the first version of the manuscript. The last author is the
person who conceptualized and supervised the work. The order of authors between
the first and last position is determined by contribution in a descending order. Having
additional “first” authors (“co-first authors”) is possible when two (or more) authors
contributed equally. The author who was most involved in conceptualization or did
most experiments will be listed first on a manuscript with co-first authors. If these
contributions are equal, priority will be given to those who wish to pursue a career in
academia. As a last resort, order will be decided by a coin toss. When collaborating
with colleagues outside of the Bunnik lab, having multiple “last” authors is possible as
well. If a manuscript is still in preparation or revision when an author leaves the lab,
that person is expected to continue to contribute to finalizing the manuscript.
Author contributions will be specified in the manuscript. The following contributor
roles (adapted from Contributor Roles Taxonomy or CReDiT) are used:
conceptualization, funding acquisition, performing experiments, data visualization,
statistical analysis, writing the original draft, editing the manuscript, project
administration, providing resources, programming or software development, and
supervision.
All authors are required to use the
ORCID
persistent digital identifier. An ORCID ID is a
free, unique, open digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher
with the same or a similar name to you.
PUBLISHING — Selecting a journal for publication is done by Dr. Evelien Bunnik in close consultation
with the first author. As of 2023, the Bunnik lab prefers to submit manuscripts to open
access journals from not-for-profit publishers. We believe that the quality and
impact of a manuscript is not necessarily determined by the journal in which it is
published, therefore we do not take the impact factor of a journal into account when
selecting a journal for publication. Other criteria we use to evaluate a journal are
reputation, the journal’s audience, article processing charges, word limit, format-free
submission, time to first decision, publication time, manuscript transfer service,
indexing, and copyright. The Bunnik lab supports double-blind, transparent peer-review
(publishing reviewer reports anonymously alongside the published article) and platforms such as
Review Commons. Have a look at
this
video to see how Review Commons works.
— As of February 2024, publishing
one article open access in the journal Nature costs $12,290 (that's not a typo!). See
this video.
— Scientists do not get paid when they publish their research. Instead, we have to pay the publishing company. See
this video.
— What's wrong with commercial academic publishing companies? See
this video.
