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In his column "Me first!" Glenn McGee proposes two changes to fix the system of scientific authorship.¹ Drawing simple authorship rules is easy when a paper requires a single field of expertise and can be understood by all authors. However, many papers require that people from different fields come together, and not all authors will understand all the aspects of the paper, even if they devised part of the strategy. How can rules deal with that?


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