In your Careers feature on tenured academic positions (Nature 468, 123–125; 2010), you recommend that those seeking tenure should “Name a senior department member as a co-author on your papers if you're in Europe”. But this regretfully common practice should be weeded out, not encouraged.
Such a recommendation would be worthwhile if it were to motivate a genuine collaboration and result in a significant contribution from the senior scientist to the paper.
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van Raaij, M. Guest authors: for contributors only. Nature 468, 765 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468765d
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