Corresponding Author Tags & Author Collaboration Placement in ListingCorresponding Author Tags & Author Collaboration Placement in Listing

What

Difference between "Corresponding Author", "First Author" and "Last Author" and how to enable it.

Corresponding author:

• The corresponding author is the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process. They're normally senior researchers.
  • You enable corresponding author under Administrator > System settings > Publication > Enable corresponding author.

First Author:

• The first author is usually the person who made the most significant intellectual contribution to the work. That includes designing the study, acquiring and analyzing data from experiments and writing the actual manuscript.
  • You set the order of the first author under Administrator > System settings > Research output model > "Choose the default Author Collaboration position".

Last Author:

• The sequence of authors should be determined by the relative overall contributions to the manuscript. 
  It is common practice to have the senior author appear last, sometimes regardless of that persons contribution. The senior author, like all other authors, should meet all criteria for authorship, but the senior author usually is the corresponding author.

More information

See 5.14.0 Release notes, section 2.5 and 2.6