Authorship

Authorship is determined by intellectual contribution Within that principle, HAAG’s practice is:

• Student researchers who performed the core work take first authorship. Our researchers do the work, and they receive the credit that advances their careers.
• Partnering faculty typically hold the senior (last author) position, reflecting their role in conceiving the research question and directing the work.
• Computational advisors, when they contribute enough to earn authorship, appear between the student researchers and the partnering faculty’s senior position.

Author order is discussed at project kickoff and confirmed at submission, as contributions become clear. If a project produces multiple papers, order is decided separately for each one, based on who actually contributed to that paper’s specific findings, not carried over from an earlier paper on the same project.

If a student researcher leaves before submission, their authorship position reflects the contribution they actually made before departing.