Tuesday, 28 February 2017

advisor - Supervisor delays publication over style questions for years – can I remove him from the authors list?


I did my PhD four years back. I was funded from my home country and I have done all the work. I started writing papers before submitting my thesis.


I am sending my supervisor drafts every year until now. Altogether I have now done 32 drafts. Since last year alone, I have rewritten my paper 12 times but he still is not happy to submit it and not willing to make any changes by himself. He is even not letting me to show it to the reviewers.


My supervisor is a lecturer and I was his first PhD student. I acquired the opinion of two professors (one of them is my 2nd supervisor and is a co-author) recently about the quaility of paper and they recommended to send it to a good journal (impact factor of 10 and above). After many years of struggle my supervisor wished to publish it in a journal with an impact factor less than 1. Above all he is not willing to pay publication costs and he is not allowing me to try for good journal. I am the one who did all the work, who paid for work, who wrote paper and who is paying for publication costs and i am not allowed to try any good journal.


One thing about his recomened changes: He did not ask repeating any experiments, redoing any analysis or revisiting any conclusions. It’s only text style that is being changed over last four years. I contacted the university services and they told me that I don’t qualify for university help as they only cover two years post PhD duration.



What can I do now? Can I publish my work without him as co author. Can I just acknowlege him for hosting me and remove his name from the author list?




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