<div dir="ltr">Dear Ken,<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Personally, I do not think that was a right decision. You have to understand that is a precedent. There are </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">no </font><span 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">of the real experimental data. </span><span 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">what I can say now</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks for your prompt reaction,</span></div><div><span 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">igor@gwu.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:igor@jlab.org" target="_blank">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">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">Dear Igor,<br>
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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>
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Best regards,<br>
Ken<br>
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From: Igor Strakovsky <<a 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">clasmbr@jlab.org</a>; <a href="mailto:clascomment@jlab.org">clascomment@jlab.org</a>; Hicks, Kenneth; <a href="mailto:mokeev@jlab.org">mokeev@jlab.org</a>; <a href="mailto:jprice@csudh.edu">jprice@csudh.edu</a>; <a 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>
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Dear Ken, Alexey, Eberhard, Viktor, and Andrey,<br>
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Thank you very much for a good piece of physics. It is difficult to write comments after Dan Carman.<br>
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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>
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Then back to physics...<br>
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1) pg 1, left, 1st phrase: "The threshold...": I do not think that this phrase does make any sense - please rephrase it<br>
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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>
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That is all by now,<br>
Igor<br>
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