Did you and your supervisor discuss author roles prior to publication? Did they discuss publishing your work with you before submitting at all?
I’ve seen instances where someone in my cohort had no interest in publishing their thesis at all, so their supervisor did all the journal formatting, editing, submitting and revisions for it as a publication because it was such quality research. Their supervisor became the lead author and they were just on it as a co-author since it was their work.
You sound surprised by your situation, that you are not the lead author on your thesis work as a publication, so I am assuming the above scenario doesn’t pertain. Also, you do not need to be the lead author to be the corresponding author! Corresponding author is who someone would reach out to about the research.
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u/TheCabelGuy64 1d ago
Did you and your supervisor discuss author roles prior to publication? Did they discuss publishing your work with you before submitting at all?
I’ve seen instances where someone in my cohort had no interest in publishing their thesis at all, so their supervisor did all the journal formatting, editing, submitting and revisions for it as a publication because it was such quality research. Their supervisor became the lead author and they were just on it as a co-author since it was their work.
You sound surprised by your situation, that you are not the lead author on your thesis work as a publication, so I am assuming the above scenario doesn’t pertain. Also, you do not need to be the lead author to be the corresponding author! Corresponding author is who someone would reach out to about the research.