'Big team' science challenges us to reconsider authorship

'Big team' science challenges researchers to revisit three issues around authorship: (1) how to define authorship-worthy contributions, (2) how contributions should be documented and (3) how disagreements among large teams of coauthors should be handled. We propose steps that the community can take to resolve these issues.

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'Big team' science challenges researchers to reconsider authorship issues including defining authorship-worthy contributions, documenting contributions, and handling disagreements among coauthors. We propose steps to resolve these issues.