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[Silvia Niccolai <silvia.niccolai AT ijclab.in2p3.fr>]

Dear all,

I started looking at the statements, and I realized a possible interpretative issue that some of the institutions seem to have. 

I saw that in some cases the people that have less than 0.15 FTEs have been systematically labeled by the representative as "not authors". I believe that in most cases (I checked one, so far, and indeed was the case) this is a misinterpretation of our rule. They don't get the "average" concept (maybe we should have indicated "average FTEs over all authors of the institution" or something like that), and assume each person must pass the 0.15 FTEs threshold, otherwise he/she can't be an author. 

I exchanged with Pietro about this and he agreed that when we see similar cases we should inform the reps of the possible misinterpretation, and give them a chance to recover the authors they had removed. So I think all of us should be on the lookout for these kind of situations. 

I hope it is clear and helpful.

Best regards,

Silvia