Authorship and co-authorship: positive and negative issues

Abstract

The scientific papers are influenced by many variables, specially their authorship and co-authorship. The post-graduation publications and the difficulties in establishing the adequate rules to the current contingence changes are increasing, and the (co-)authorship problems are restrict to the common criteria’s between students and their adviser orienting professor, and to the production evaluation programs. This paper also presents Brazilian co-authorship tendency.