<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Igor,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I am afraid it is not up to you or collaboration to decide who is the first author. This choice is up to the lead author group and they know better who contributed what. </div><div><br></div><div>-Eugene<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Igor Strakovsky" <igor@gwu.edu><br><b>To: </b>"Kenneth Hicks" <hicks@ohio.edu><br><b>Cc: </b>tangwei@jlab.org, "Victor Mokeev" <mokeev@jlab.org>, "clascomment" <clascomment@jlab.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:10:53 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Clascomment] OPT-IN: Differential cross sections and polarization observables from the CLAS Kâ photoproduction and search for new Nâ states<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr">Dear Ken,<br><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Personally, I do not think that was a right decision. You have to understand that is a precedent. There are </span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">no </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CLAS Collaboration <b>experimental</b> (not analysis) papers with the first author who was out of the analysis </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of the real experimental data. </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">If majority of the CLAS Collaboration will accept your position then that is all </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">what I can say now</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks for your prompt reaction,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Igor</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>-----</div><div>Igor Strakovsky, SAID INS The George Washington University</div><div>Tel: 571-553-8344,Skype: igors1945_2, Fax: 202-994-3001</div><div>Cell: 703-728-5627, Emails: <a href="mailto:igor@gwu.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:igor@gwu.edu">igor@gwu.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:igor@jlab.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:igor@jlab.org">igor@jlab.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Hicks, Kenneth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hicks@ohio.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:hicks@ohio.edu">hicks@ohio.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear Igor,<br> <br> Thank you for your comment, but my student, Wei Tang, already was first author on the cross section paper (see Ref. [4] of the paper under review). Alexey did most of the work for this follow up paper. I think he clearly deserves to be first author. These decisions are best reached by the group of lead authors and I am very comfortable with the order of authors given.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> Ken<br> <br> ________________________________________<br> From: Igor Strakovsky <<a href="mailto:igor@gwu.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:igor@gwu.edu">igor@gwu.edu</a>><br> <span class="">Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 6:02:18 PM<br> </span>To: <a href="mailto:clasmbr@jlab.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:clasmbr@jlab.org">clasmbr@jlab.org</a>; <a href="mailto:clascomment@jlab.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:clascomment@jlab.org">clascomment@jlab.org</a>; Hicks, Kenneth; <a href="mailto:mokeev@jlab.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:mokeev@jlab.org">mokeev@jlab.org</a>; <a href="mailto:jprice@csudh.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jprice@csudh.edu">jprice@csudh.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:tangwei@jlab.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:tangwei@jlab.org">tangwei@jlab.org</a><br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Subject: OPT-IN: Differential cross sections and polarization observables from the CLAS Kâ photoproduction and search for new Nâ states<br> <br> Dear Ken, Alexey, Eberhard, Viktor, and Andrey,<br> <br> Thank you very much for a good piece of physics. It is difficult to write comments after Dan Carman.<br> <br> My main concern is not about physics. I do not think that Alexey can be the first author of the CLAS experimental paper. He did nothing for analysis, did not take shifts and so<br> on. Sorry, Alexey, nothing personal. My suggestion is that Ken (corresponding author)<br> or his student must be the first.<br> <br> Then back to physics...<br> <br> 1) pg 1, left, 1st phrase: "The threshold...": I do not think that this phrase does make any sense - please rephrase it<br> <br> 2) pg 1, left 3rd phrase: This statement is wrong. Then I disagreed with the Volker's position which is a misinterpretation of our GW SAID results (latest PWA of piN elastic scattering data). Our position is solid - there is no evidence to support P11(1710).<br> You have to rephrase or skip it.<br> <br> That is all by now,<br> Igor<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Clascomment mailing list<br>Clascomment@jlab.org<br>https://mailman.jlab.org/mailman/listinfo/clascomment<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>