@article{f58230a0786b403a9ef8783bb2f42de7,
title = "Student perceptions of authoring a publication stemming from a course-based undergraduate research experience (Cure)",
abstract = "Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) engage students in authentic research experiences in a course format and can sometimes result in the publication of that research. However, little is known about student-author perceptions of CURE pub-lications. In this study, we examined how students perceive they benefit from authoring a CURE publication and what they believe is required for authorship of a manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal. All 16 students who were enrolled in a molecular genetics CURE during their first year of college participated in semistructured interviews during their fourth year. At the time of the interviews, students had been authors of a CURE publication for a year and a half. Students reported that they benefited personally and professionally from the publication. Students had varying perceptions of what is required for authorship, but every student thought that writing the manuscript was needed, and only two men-tioned needing to approve the final draft. Additionally, we identified incomplete conceptions that students had about CURE publications. This work establishes student-perceived benefits from CURE publications and highlights the need for authorship requirements to be explicitly addressed in CUREs.",
author = "Turner, {Ashley N.} and Challa, {Anil K.} and Cooper, {Katelyn M.}",
note = "Funding Information: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Academies of Science and Medicine have called for training individuals to understand responsible authorship and publication ethics (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017; NIH, 2019; NSF, 2020). However, it is unlikely that information about ethical authorship is being regularly integrated into the undergraduate curriculum (Abbott et al., 2020). One study of 68 undergraduates who were entering research programs in science and engineering found that more than one-third of students were unable to define the term “authorship.” Even after participating in a workshop on responsible conduct in research (RCR), about a quarter of students still struggled to define that term correctly (Mabrouk, 2016). Additionally, an in-depth interview study of 18 undergraduate researchers found that authorship was not routinely discussed in their research groups (Abbott et al., 2020). Specifically in the context of CUREs, the Ethics Network for Course-based Opportunities in Undergraduate Research has recently called for integrating curricula related to the principles of ethics/RCR into CUREs and highlighted authorship and authors{\textquoteright} responsibilities as key topics that should be addressed within RCR curriculum (Olimpo et al., 2017; Diaz-Martinez et al., 2019). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, American Society for Cell Biology. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1187/cbe.21-02-0051",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "20",
journal = "CBE life sciences education",
issn = "1931-7913",
publisher = "American Society for Cell Biology",
number = "3",
}