For what it is worth. I found out last week I was excluded as a credited inventor on a patent that I worked for 2.5 years on. Industry does this stuff too...
I know it may not be worth pursuing, but that specifically can invalidate a patent.
Correct. I have already reached out to my former company and I have a stack of paperwork coming to "correct the oversight" it helps that the company didn't know that the patent application had been filed by the client.
Umm, that sounds very illegal?
It sounds that way because it is.
This is why workers forced movies and shows to put everyone in the closing credits.
Y'all need to unionize.
From what I can tell, et al. is not about socio-political power*. It's just a necessity for ease and efficiency. In-text citations need to be short to limit wasted space. Otherwise, we'd have lots of text dedicated to unnecessary names. An in-text citation that reads (Perez et al., 2023) is much more efficient than (Perez, Washington, Smith, Iwukuni, Johnson, Patel, Boofy, Yamirez, Tate, Hendrix, Apple, Man, & Gargamel, 2023).
Using 7th ed. APA, the citation entries in the bibliography/references include upto the first 20 authors, so contributors are rarely omitted.
- Perhaps being the first author is in many situations, but APA format can't really address that.
The idea being that when you go to view the citation, you see the details that were previously et al.
Whereas on movie credits, that's your one chance to be seen credited on the work, outside of IMDB maybe.
And at the same time, you can still get credit for the paper in your resumee etc.
scholarsR1 uni PR team: "become a scholar! it'll give you more opportunities in the future!"scholars: "there are too many scholars!"
No scholar would ever tell anyone else to become a scholar. More like "Run! Run while you can! Get away from this cursed existence!"
you're right. fixed
Has any researcher ever tried legally changing their name to "et al" ? Like in day to day life you could just be Al but you would also be the most published scientist in history.
It would also mean being involved in the most lawsuits, unfortunately.
Glass half full approach: "I am the single most cited author in existence"
Some disciplines use alphabetical order. I'd like to see a study that looks into if in this fields, does it impact the prosperity of tenure and grant funding?
On the opposite side, being the only person working in the lab (especially when dealing with animal models) can be absolutely miserable - ask me how I know...
How do you know?
This guy follows documentation.
"The movie star...and the rest!"
Simple fix, change legal name to Al.
One tiny difference between the pain Israeli commercial pilots feel once they graduate
What the fuck are you talking about?
