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Co-authors did not contribute<\/h3>\n
\u00bb[…] It wasn’t something that just happened to me. It was really \u2018the way things are done\u2019 and it is unfortunately still like that. This happens all the time \u2013 everywhere. I still have to include the same co-author in all my work as long as I am a PhD student, because they supposedly ‘contributed to me getting a PhD in the first place’. But they didn’t contribute anything. They didn’t help me. Didn’t supervise me. Answered no questions. Nothing. They are truly just names on a piece of paper. I have criticised this practice from the beginning, but I was made to feel strongly that I should just toe the line. As a PhD student I am at the bottom of the food chain and the smartest thing I can do is to make the senior researchers happy and finish my work. After I complete my PhD I can choose not to continue this practice.\u00ab<\/p>\n
Identical research design<\/h3>\n
\u00bbI sent my grant application to someone I wanted to have on my panel of experts, and hoped for a positive response so that the application would be stronger. I didn’t get the funding, unfortunately. But a few months later I saw that a colleague from another research institution received funding for a project with an identical idea, identical problem formulation, methodology, etc. That colleague was really good friends with the person from the expert panel that I sent the application to.\u00ab
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Six months later, my principal supervisor came to me and congratulated me for writing such a good article. He had just read it and had to tell me that I had done a good job. To this day, my first article is the most cited article by my supervisors (who, respectively, corrected a few spelling mistakes, and who was cordial enough to express gratitude for my hard work).\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Professor known for re-writing theses<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbThere is a professor at my department who is known for taking master’s theses and transcribing them into articles without crediting the students. No one says anything, as the professor is held in high esteem by his audience.\u00ab<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">#Pleasedontstealmywork:<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the #MeToo campaign, the hashtag #pleasedontstealmywork hopes to bring forth anonymous testimonies from young researchers who have themselves experienced, or seen others, having their research results, ideas or data stolen.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfaH8jlobVQ8djF0PoE_gD0eh3raGTjIgnTx_bFzdKlYJEtng\/viewform\">about the campaign here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Co-authors did not contribute<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bb[…] It wasn’t something that just happened to me. It was really \u2018the way things are done\u2019 and it is unfortunately still like that. This happens all the time \u2013 everywhere. I still have to include the same co-author in all my work as long as I am a PhD student, because they supposedly ‘contributed to me getting a PhD in the first place’. But they didn’t contribute anything. They didn’t help me. Didn’t supervise me. Answered no questions. Nothing. They are truly just names on a piece of paper. I have criticised this practice from the beginning, but I was made to feel strongly that I should just toe the line. As a PhD student I am at the bottom of the food chain and the smartest thing I can do is to make the senior researchers happy and finish my work. After I complete my PhD I can choose not to continue this practice.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Identical research design<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbI sent my grant application to someone I wanted to have on my panel of experts, and hoped for a positive response so that the application would be stronger. I didn’t get the funding, unfortunately. 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And a professor who is famous for turning students' master's theses into research articles without giving credit.\r\n\r\nThese are some of the more than 50 testimonials that have been gathered since Monday by the PHD Association Network of Denmark (PAND), which has set out to investigate the extent of so-called research theft in Denmark.\r\n\r\n<strong>READ ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/pleasedontstealmywork-new-campaign-to-stop-the-theft-of-research\/\"> #Pleasedont stealmywork: New campaign to stop the theft of research<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00bbClearly, people have had all these stories bottled up inside,\u00ab says PhD student Maria Toft. She and the PhD association PAND started a campaign where they gather in anonymous testimonies about the theft of research.\r\n\r\nAs the University Post has described earlier, Maria Toft was herself a party to a dispute with two older researchers about who had the rights of authorship over research articles. 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Hundreds have written or phoned me where they have told their own stories and thanked me for coming forward.\u00ab\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">#Pleasedontstealmywork:<\/p>\r\nInspired by the #MeToo campaign, the hashtag #pleasedontstealmywork hopes to bring forth anonymous testimonies from young researchers who have themselves experienced, or seen others, having their research results, ideas or data stolen.\r\n\r\nYou can read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfaH8jlobVQ8djF0PoE_gD0eh3raGTjIgnTx_bFzdKlYJEtng\/viewform\">the campaign here.<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h3>Had not read the article<\/h3>\r\nResearch theft can be when other researchers steal credit for a colleague's ideas, data or analyses. 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But the collaboration with the project\u2019s senior researchers quickly turned sour.\r\n\r\n\u00bbMy ideas were independent ideas, but they would not recognize that,\u00ab Maria Toft says about the two senior scientists. They claimed that the ideas were their ideas just as much as hers.\r\n\r\n\u00bbResearchers plagiarising other people's work or ideas happens unfortunately more often than you would think. I have heard from many who have also experienced this, but who cannot, or dare not, say no,\u00ab she says.\r\n\r\nA young researcher may have written a scientific article, but then come under pressure to share authorship with others \u2013 often older \u2013 researchers. Or maybe they discover that another researcher has taken credit for the original ideas or hypotheses that they came up with.\r\n\r\nThat is why Maria Toft has\u00a0 \u2013 with the Danish association for PhDs PAND \u2013 taken the initiative for a new campaign called #pleasedontstealmywork.\r\n\r\n\u00bbThis is a problem that many of us PhD students know exists, and which we discuss,\u00ab says Luisa Hedler, who is co-chairperson of PAND.\r\n<h3>The weakest link<\/h3>\r\nInspired by #MeToo, its campaign under the hashtag #pleasedontstealmywork will gather anonymous testimonies from young researchers who have themselves experienced, or seen others, get their research results, ideas or data stolen.\r\n\r\n\u00bbYou are already stressed and vulnerable doing a PhD, and we want to avoid this being made worse by having to experience your work being stolen by others. All PhD students must be able to enter into collaborations in an academic setting with confidence and without fear. You should not be afraid to talk to your colleagues for fear of theft,\u00ab she says.\r\n\r\nDisputes about authorship and plagiarism are widespread in the world of research, according to Morten Rosenmeier, an expert on copyright and a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH).\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt is crucial for a researchers' career that they have many publications in the right places, and it is therefore increasingly common for researchers to collaborate, and to mention many other researchers. The question about what it takes for you to be mentioned in work, is something that gives rise to many cases and disagreements,\u00ab he says.\r\n\r\nLuisa Hedler agrees that the pressure to publish many scientific articles helps foster a greater risk that young researchers get their ideas and analyses stolen.\r\n\r\n\u00bbThis does not happen because professors are evil,\u00ab she emphasises.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt is the product of an academic culture, and pressure on researchers to keep publishing. In this situation that is not ideal for anyone, it is the young researchers who are the ones that are negatively affected by it. We are the weakest link.\u00ab\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n","post_title":"#Pleasedont stealmywork: New campaign to stop the theft of research","post_excerpt":"Young researchers are seeing older colleagues stealing the credit for their ideas, data, and analyses.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pleasedontstealmywork-new-campaign-to-stop-the-theft-of-research","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-25 10:17:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-25 09:17:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/pleasedont-stealmywork-ny-kampagne-vil-stoppe-forskningstyveri\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":132254,"post_author":"85","post_date":"2022-03-28 08:38:06","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-28 06:38:06","post_content":"Supervisors are different. There are supervisors who see their job as being a guide to show the way forward, that offers the student an apprenticeship in research design and the craft of scientific article writing.\r\n\r\nAs a supervisor, they support the PhD student when it is time to stand on their own, grow apart from their supervisors, and start to lead their research independently. That is, someone who actually gives the PhD student the space to develop into an independent researcher. A supervisor who speaks and is silent at the right moments, keeps their hands of their work, and who supports the first author when they have to get the solve the jigsaw of co-authorships.\r\n\r\nAt the other extreme, there are supervisors who act as feudal lords, where the PhD student never gets the opportunity to step out from the shadow of the supervisor. Here the supervisor works as if in a feudal system, where it was never the intention that those lower down would move up the hierarchy \u2013 ultimately up to the level of the feudal lords.\r\n\r\n<strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/pleasedontstealmywork-new-campaign-to-stop-the-theft-of-research\/\"><em>#Pleasedont stealmywork: New campaign to stop the theft of research<\/em><\/a>\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">OPINION ON THE UNIVERSITY POST<\/p>\r\nThis is a featured comment\/opinion piece. It expresses the author\u2019s own opinion.\r\n\r\nWe encourage everyone to read the whole comment before commenting on social media, so that we only get constructive contributions.\r\n\r\nDisagreement is good, but remember to uphold a civil and respectful tone.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe \u2018feudal lord\u2019 collects publications like a zealous stamp collector, without really asking themselves what the purpose of it all really is. In the beginning, the purpose seems obvious: the postdoc collects publications to qualify for an assistant professorship, and the assistant professor collects publications to qualify for associate professor. The associate professor to\u00a0 professorship, etc. etc.\r\n<h3>The \u2018lord\u2019 can never get enough publications<\/h3>\r\nBut somewhere along the way, the number of publications becomes a goal in itself. And there is a need for consenting labour power for the production apparatus. In the role as a \u2018feudal lord\u2019, you risk acquiring a number of bad habits over time. The bad habits include letting unpaid labour make a significant contribution to the hard work of scientific study with a bare minimum of counselling in exchange. The bad habits are also more subtle. The supervisor does not have to move out of the comfort zone of their own\u00a0 knowledge. When s\/he supervisors, new ideas and methods are often written off as superficial.\r\n\r\nThe \u2018lord\u2019 has difficulty with the role of co-author. S\/he would like to contribute \u2018it would also be interesting to study x\u2019 comments in the article manuscript's commentary thread, but does not understand how the role of co-author \u2013 unlike, say, the thesis supervisor role \u2013 is covered by the Vancouver rules that mean they need to have made a significant contribution to achieve co-authorship.\r\n\r\nThe supervisor using the apprenticeship approach understands this. This supervisor understands that part of the point of a PhD degree programme is that the scholar must learn to manage a research process. This means that the supervisor must, at some point, submit to the PhD student\u2019s own management. Otherwise, they will not learn it, right?\r\n<h3>We shape the researchers of the future \u2014 what types do we want?<\/h3>\r\nAs a supervisor, you have a choice. Whether you want to take on a role as supervisor using the apprenticeship approach or as a feudal lord. In a system that continues to reward the number of publications, it is tempting to take on the role as feudal lord: Get a swarm of PhD students to do the hard work and keep the fruits of this work to yourself.\r\n\r\nThe \u2018lord\u2019 is found in all of us who have passed the PhD level, and who continue to take a salary at the university. But we decide ourselves how much this style should define our supervision, and how much space apprenticeship should have. Sometimes the lord within us will have us believe that we have no choice. That we are simply operating in a system in which a wealth of publications is crucial for an academic career. But: We decide ourselves how feudally we want to play the game.\r\n\r\nJust as supervisors are different, PhD students are of course different. It cannot be ruled out beforehand that some individuals expect an unreasonably high degree of supervisor service. But you don't get much out of academia if you expect to be nursed by your supervisors. So let's assume that the majority of PhD students are just highly skilled and would just like to do well and make their supervisors proud.\r\n\r\nOne of the articles from #pleasedontstealmywork mentions that the world needs sharp, independent and inventive researchers. We \u2013 the apprentice supervisors and the feudal lords \u2013 have a large influence on how independent, imaginative and robust the researchers of tomorrow are. We need each other \u2013 young and old \u2013 we need each other's work and consideration. In the long run, there is no space for free rides and sweet deals for any of the parties. Let us therefore rein in the feudal lord within and set our apprentices free.\r\n\r\nIf we are lucky, better research will emerge from this.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n","post_title":"Research manager: For students to flourish, we need to stop the feudal lord within us","post_excerpt":"As senior scientists, we can choose to ignore the #pleasedontstealmywork campaign. But we could also try to learn more. 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