An ex-committee member of mine insisted on putting his/her name on a paper of mine. It was my initial idea and I wrote the entire paper. He/she didn't even understand the details and never ever provided any useful suggestions.
The worst part, that person didn't make tenure and went to a place where publication doesn't matter, and still insisted on claiming coauthorship on my work. I'm just a student, and I cannot afford to give up an entire year's worth of work. All I can do is accept a joint work, remove that person from my committee, and move on.
I wonder who experienced worse coauthor experiences? Especially at the beginning of the career, it is so detrimental.
Ex-committee member insisted on claiming coauthorship
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Didn't you bring this up with your committee chair?
My committee chair is in a different department, and doesn't really care. My advisor doesn't even read my papers. :(
I just feel that the coauthorship really hurts, because I could have used that work as my JMP. -
None of this is a reason not to say no.
If this happened recently, you can still say no now.
This isn't some bad thing happening to you through external forces. It is a bad thing you are doing to yourself. If you don't want this bad thing to occur, then fix it, since it is caused entirely by your decision.
Didn't you bring this up with your committee chair?
My committee chair is in a different department, and doesn't really care. My advisor doesn't even read my papers. :(
I just feel that the coauthorship really hurts, because I could have used that work as my JMP.