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Authorship guidelines for academic papers and software archives

First of all, we are deeply thankful to everyone who has helped make Fatiando a Terra what it is today. Our goal for this document is to establish guidelines for giving credit to contributors for their work. To do so, we will attempt to define:

  • Fair and diverse ways of providing recognition for contributors' efforts.
  • Define contributions in a broad way: writing code and/or documentation, providing ideas, fostering the community, etc.

The following are the ways in which individuals who have contributed will be recognized.

Note: These policies are not set in stone and may be changed to accommodate the growth of the project or the preferences of the community.

This document applies to all parts of the Fatiando a Terra project.

Changelog for each release

Every time we make a release, everyone who has made a commit to the repository since the previous release will be mentioned in the changelog entry. If their full name is available on GitHub, we will use it. Otherwise, we will use the GitHub handle. This is a way of saying "Thank you".

The AUTHORS.md file

Anyone who has contributed a pull request to the project is welcome to add themselves to the AUTHORS.md file. This file lives in the repository and is packaged with distributions.

This is an optional process and is opt-in. Names and affiliations will be sourced from this file for publishing source code archives.

Authorship on Zenodo archives of releases

Anyone who has contributed to the repository (i.e., appears on git log) will be included as an author on the Zenodo source code archive of new releases.

To be included as an author, you must add the following to the AUTHORS.md file of the repository:

  1. Full name
  2. Affiliation (if omitted, we will use "Unaffiliated")
  3. ORCID (optional)

The first author will be "Fatiando a Terra Project". Other authors will be listed in alphabetical order by last name. The following statement will also be included in the description:

Note: Authors are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

If you have contributed and do not wish to be included in Zenodo archives, there are a few options:

  1. Don't add yourself to AUTHORS.md
  2. Remove yourself from AUTHORS.md
  3. Indicate next to your name on AUTHORS.md that you do not wish to be included with something like (not included in Zenodo).

Scientific publications (papers)

We aim to write academic papers for most of your software packages. Ideally, we will publish updated papers for major changes or large new components of the package.

To be included as an author on the paper, you must satisfy the following criteria:

  1. Have made a contribution to the repository or significant non-coding contributions.
  2. Add your full name, affiliation, and (optionally) ORCID to the paper. These can be submitted by pull requests to the corresponding paper repository.
  3. Write and/or read and review the manuscript in a timely manner and provide comments on the paper (even if it's just an "OK", but preferably more).

If project (collective) authorship is allowed by the journal:

The first author will be "Fatiando a Terra Project". Other authors will be listed in alphabetical order by last name. A statement will also be included about the author order.

Otherwise:

The order of authors will be defined by the number of commits authored since the previous major release that has an associated paper (git shortlog vX.0.0...HEAD -sne). The order of any author who hasn't made any commits will be decided by all other authors.

In both cases, the order can also be changed on a case-by-case basis.