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You have, as the PI, completed a clinical study. Eight researchers participated. They include five clinicians, who obtained the consent from the patients and collected data; two physiologists, who reviewed the Electroencephalogram (EEG) tracings; and a statistician, who completed the statistical analysis. You choose an appropriate journal where you will send the manuscript. When you read the instructions to the author, you see that the journal allows only six authors and you have eight.
What would you do? Delete two authors; if so which ones? How do you approach the researchers whose names are to be deleted from the paper?
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2015). Case 31: How Many Authors?. In: Clinical Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2516-2_31
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