Being an author

Being a researcher, being an editor, being an author.

With me, it happened in the beginning of the last decade (1990). When the post of editor of the unit's periodical became vacant, the Director, like most Directors, looked around him in search of his best friend or his worst enemy. He picked me for one of those two reasons, which one of them I have not found out. But it really does not make that much of a difference given the size of the problem...

Who is an author

• Inter-disciplinary conventions. Different fields of study often have vastly different conventions when it comes to allocating authors. While a lot of disciplines tend to list authors in decreasing order of contribution, others may list authors in alphabetical order, regardless of the individual contribution. The issue of determining whether or not “lesser” contributors should be listed at all...

To be an author

It is a strange confession for an Editor-in-Chief but the more I edit, the more I review, and the more immersed I have become in academic publishing, the less I understand what an author is. I know I am very grateful to authors. I also know we would each like to be one, or at least many of us would, and I know that without authors journals like JHPS would simply not exist. Yet how many authors ...

Author Index

Author Index