ATLAS Authorship Policy R. Voss Physics Department, CERN

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ATLAS Authorship PolicyR. VossPhysics
Department, CERN

• IUPAP C11 Meeting _at_ ICHEP04, Beijing, China,
  August 18, 2004

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Preliminaries

• ATLAS publication policy still under development
• Guidelines on authorship formally approved by
  Collaboration Board in June 2004
• Full draft policy athttp//atlas.web.cern.ch/Atla
  s/GROUPS/GENERAL/SCINOTES/policy/policy.html

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Qualification for authorship

• ATLAS member for at least one year
• Not an author of another major LHC collaboration
• Exceptions allowed for engineers
• Spent gt 80 working days and gt 50 of available
  research time on ATLAS
• Technical work detector construction/
  running/maintenance, shifts, software
  development, management
• Does NOT include physics analysis
• Technical work shared by institutes in proportion
  to number of authors

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Continued authorship

• To continue initial qualification
• Continue as ATLAS member
• Spend gt 50 of research time on ATLAS
• Not an author of another major LHC collaboration
• After ceasing ATLAS membership
• Retained as author for one year
• Everybody who would have qualified before start
  of ATLAS data-taking receives an additional
  credit of 4 months/year

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Author lists

• All general ATLAS papers to be signed by all
  ATLAS authors
• Names of all authors will be presented on equal
  footing (alphabetically by name or institute)
• Non-qualified authors may be included
• Frequency and medium of publication do be
  decided after consultation with relevant journals

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Scientific notes

• Papers published by (small) subsets of ATLAS
• Detector RD, construction and tests
• Physics studies
• .
• All physics analyses using ATLAS collision data
  to appear first as general publications
• Role after start of data-taking under discussion
• Consensus continue
• Self-contained studies of sub-system aspects
• Back-up to provide analysis details for general
  papers

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Policy decision making

• ATLAS Publications Committee (PubComm) in charge
  of developing policies for authorship, internal
  refereeing etc.
• Reports to Collaboration Board
• Authorship Committee to be established (3 people,
  subset of PubComm)
• Set up and maintain author list
• Will rely essentially on input from institutes
• Will deal with exceptional/controversial, in
  consultation with Spokesperson and CB Chair
• Final decision by Spokesperson