sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Anders Knospe <ank220 AT lehigh.edu>]

Dear sPHENIX Collaborators,

Thank you for the feedback you have sent in so far regarding the statement of principles from the Authorship Committee. We will be giving an update during the General Meeting tomorrow. We would still be very happy to receive your feedback. As before, please email the whole committee, but please do not reply-all to the entire collaboration.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 9:13 AM Anders Knospe <ank220 AT lehigh.edu> wrote:

Dear sPHENIX Collaborators,

As you may recall, the Authorship Committee presented a statement of principles at the most recent sPHENIX General Meeting last week. That statement is copied below, with an additional paragraph regarding people who wish to take their name off of a paper. As we move forward in the process of setting the authorship rules, feedback would be very useful.

We would therefore like to renew our call for your thoughts on authorship rules for sPHENIX. Please send your thoughts to the Authorship Committee by 9 a.m. BNL time on Thursday, February 2. There will be other opportunities to comment, but we need time to discuss the first round of comments before the next General Meeting. Please email the whole committee, not just one member. But please do not reply-all to the whole collaboration! Please keep in mind that the statement below is a work in progress. Nothing is set in stone yet, and your thoughts are an essential part arriving at a broadly acceptable set of rules. Thank you in advance for your constructive feedback.

The sPHENIX Authorship Committee:
Virginia Bailey, vbailey13 AT gsu.edu
Neeraj Gupta, neerajgupta786 AT yahoo.co.in
Anders Knospe, ank220 AT lehigh.edu
Marzia Rosati, marziarosati AT gmail.com

=== Statement of Principles for sPHENIX Authorship ===

Authorship Policy for Physics Papers

Physicists who participate in the sPHENIX experiment will qualify as authors if they make a significant contribution to sPHENIX for twelve months, representing around at least 50% of their research time. A large fraction of this contribution must be in an area other than physics analysis, including detector construction/commissioning, calibration, quality assurance, data production, and software development of general utility.

To document their contributions to sPHENIX, each author (or person wishing to become an author) should periodically fill out a short Google form (or similar) describing what they have done in sPHENIX. Collaboration leadership (e.g. Spokespersons, Physics Coordinator, Conveners, or people to whom they delegate the responsibility) will endorse that a contribution meets the requirements for authorship.

Each author must have completed their Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion training.

In addition individuals only qualify as authors if their institution has fulfilled a reasonable fraction of the shift quota assigned to the institution. Options for remote shifts (or service work of comparable value to the Collaboration) must be provided for institutions that are unable to send people to BNL. What exactly qualifies as an alternative to in-person shifts should be decided by the IB or the Collaboration leadership.

People who leave sPHENIX will remain authors on all physics papers for two years following their departure.

Exceptional Authorship

To acknowledge their contribution to the design and construction of the detector selected engineers and technicians will be added to the first X (number to be determined) physics papers published by the Collaboration and to the relevant technical papers.

There may be cases where a person has made an exceptional contribution to a particular analysis, but does not fulfill the regular conditions for authorship. At the request of the paper committee, the spokespersons may add such a person as an author for the relevant paper.

People who made a significant contribution to the development of sPHENIX, but who left the collaboration before 2023, will be included as authors on the first N (number to be determined) physics papers. A list of such people should be compiled by the Collaboration leadership.

If a person wishes to remove their name from a paper, they may do so, but they will be removed from the author list for a period of 2 years following the submission of the paper in question.

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Anders Knospe
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Lehigh University
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