Consequences of these practices
wSuperiors receive authorship status for work carried out
completely by their subordinates.
wSome subordinates are completely denied authorship
credit (eg. Graduate students…)
wDue to arranging the co-authors names in alphabetical order in some journals,
surnames starting with later letters never contribute to them
wThe reader do not have any idea of the contribution of
other authors to the work
wFirst author’s name will be remembered along with the publication if the co-authors are not well
known