Order of authorship

All academics know that discussions about the order of authorship for a published paper can be quite complicated and even fraught.Who is the first author?What is the sequence for the others?Should all members of a research team be included, even if they have contributed little to the drafting of a paper?And, where scholarly careers are shaped by the ability to publish, these decisions become critical.These discussions are sometimes resolved easily, but they may also result in serious conflict when authors feel that their contributions to a paper are not properly acknowledged.Discussions about the order of authorship are complicated as there are no clear standards for the sequence of authors, especially for journals like Information Polity, which publishes articles by authors from different disciplinary backgrounds.In some disciplines, the norm is to put authors in alphabetical order, whereas in others, the first named

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