The big picture(s) in deciding authorship order.

Comments on M. A. Fine and L. A. Kurdek's (see record 1994-11404-001) discussion of authorship credit in faculty–student collaborations. B. Thompson disagrees with their position that an inexact determination of authorship credit, resolved in the student's favor, necessarily causes problems and that point systems could be used to evaluate the magnitude of contributions to scholarship. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)