[drb91]

My understanding is that academic authorship credit is political: authors don’t always contribute, and contributors don’t always get credit. Is this not the case?

[nl]

Not really. Usually the politics goes the other way - people getting an author slot because they are the head of the department or something.

[drb91]

I believe I covered that—authors who don’t contribute.

Also, I know too many angry grad students to believe that contributors always get credit.