Authorship |  | Second author... |
|  |  | The order in which authors are listed should reflect the individuals’ relative contributions to the work. Although the senior researcher’s originally agreed-upon contributions to the study may have qualified her as second author, she transferred many of those responsibilities to other team members. Therefore, her actual contributions may no longer merit her being listed as second author. Although she is the senior researcher in the laboratory in the faculty advisor’s absence, authorship decisions should be based on individuals’ contributions to the work performed, not on their status or rank.