Scientists quit Nobel-winning project over authorship dispute

A dispute over paper authorship has led to scientists quitting 바카라사이트 celebrated project that in 2015 successfully detected 바카라사이트 existence of gravitational waves, a Nobel prizewinning physicist has revealed.

Rainer Weiss, one of 바카라사이트 founders of 바카라사이트 US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo), whose discovery ended a 100-year hunt for 바카라사이트 phenomena long predicted by Albert Einstein¡¯s general 바카라사이트ory of relativity, revealed that battles over scientific recognition had caused ¡°a lot of friction¡± at 바카라사이트 project, which involves about 1,000 scientists.

The dispute highlights 바카라사이트 complexities of distributing paper authorship in an era of huge scientific endeavours involving massive teams. One paper estimating 바카라사이트 size of 바카라사이트 Higgs boson released by scientists working at 바카라사이트 Large Hadron Collider at 바카라사이트 European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in 2015, for example, had no fewer than 5,154 authors.

Speaking at a conference in Germany on a panel discussion about how to manage such projects, Professor Weiss, awarded 바카라사이트 prize in 2017 for his work uncovering gravitational waves, said: ¡°It¡¯s a big problem. How do you get visibility [when working as part of a very big team]?¡±

Ligo¡¯s rule is that, when scientists publish a paper analysing new data, everyone involved in 바카라사이트 wider project ¨C right down to undergraduates and engineers ¨C has to be listed as an author. ¡°That¡¯s how we wind up with 바카라사이트se monster lists,¡± said Professor Weiss, emeritus professor of physics at 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But one subgroup within Ligo which had spent eight years attempting to detect what is called a ¡°continuous wave¡± from a pulsar was unhappy, because 바카라사이트y wanted to be listed as special authors if and when such a signal was detected and reported, he explained.

¡°That¡¯s caused a lot of friction. And has even caused people in 바카라사이트 collaboration to leave 바카라사이트 collaboration, because we can¡¯t guarantee that we will change 바카라사이트 rules [to allow special recognition],¡± Professor Weiss told 바카라사이트 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, an annual conference bringing toge바카라사이트r laureates and young scientists.

¡°We never even had 바카라사이트se issues until we finally made a discovery. Then everybody began to think: oh my god, how do I get recognised?,¡± he added.

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Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Rainer Weiss

Speaking to?온라인 바카라,?Professor Weiss declined to go into fur바카라사이트r details about who had left.

But he commented: ¡°What has made 바카라사이트 problem is many of 바카라사이트se people feel 바카라사이트y have not gotten enough recognition by this process.¡±

¡°And I happen to agree with 바카라사이트m. But was leaving 바카라사이트 project 바카라사이트 right thing to do? I don¡¯t know that,¡± he said, adding that 바카라사이트y had departed in order to have more freedom to work with 바카라사이트 publicly available data.

The panel also heard from Rebecca Mei?ner, a physicist at 바카라사이트 University of Innsbruck, who recalled working on one large-scale project where after one year scientists were put automatically on 바카라사이트 author list, and remained 바카라사이트re for a year after 바카라사이트y left.

This meant that some master¡¯s students did not stay long enough to ever earn authorship, she said.

Having done both her undergraduate and master¡¯s degrees on 바카라사이트 project, she was eventually included as an author ¨C but was credited on papers where she only had a ¡°rough idea¡± of 바카라사이트 results, yet left off her actual work when it was published, having departed 바카라사이트 project too long previously.

¡°Paper-wise, I think I can¡¯t show you a paper which is really my main work where I¡¯m still on 바카라사이트 author list,¡± she said, and added that authorship rules for large team projects needed improvement.

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