How does publication and authorship work?
At Janelia Farm, we adhere to the established academic ethical standards of publication practice. Lab heads are normally senior authors, and they are free to publish in any journal. However, we encourage collaboration and reward lab heads who contribute to each other’s work. While this may produce some papers with a large number of authors, the average number of authors per paper will likely be fewer than in academia. Collaborative groups are “self-assembling” and not imposed in any way. Our culture is intended to provide lab heads with a higher degree of intellectual freedom than is commonly available at most institutions by allowing them to pursue long-term projects of high significance—projects that would not fit within the confines of a standard grant proposal. A culture promoting small research groups and broad collaboration may seem contradictory; neither is common in academia. The potential of such a combination may best be illustrated with an example. At its peak, the C. elegan
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