Authorship Policy

We do not see providing either fee-free services or charging for services as an alternative to or a justification for not providing co-authorship on grant applications, presentations, or publications. We expect that in situations where the consultant makes substantive input to the design, analysis, or reporting of a project, this should be recognized by appropriate co-authorship of the deliverables that result. Ideally, this issue should be clarified at an early stage of any collaboration.

Prior to acknowledging our input to any report, abstract, paper, poster, or publication we would like to review the wording of the acknowledgement, and usually the document itself as well. This will avoid repetition of unfortunate situations where we have advised on a small part of a project, but acknowledgements have implied that other statistically flawed parts of a paper were also based on our advice.