In academia there appears to be a disconnect regarding what faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students perceive authorship to mean. In an ongoing qualitative study of STEM faculty and undergraduate research students at research universities, a rift is seen between what authorship means to undergraduate students and what it means to their advisors. From the research conducted, it was found that graduate students can be decision makers in the assignment of credit involving undergraduate students. This interview-based study investigates what STEM graduate students know about the ethics of authorship and how they use that knowledge when making authorship decisions involving undergraduate students. In this presentation, we will discuss possible remedies to the authorship divide in undergraduate research partnerships.<br/>

Influence of graduate students on authorship decision-making in undergraduate research partnerships

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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