Q: Is it possible to publish a personal research without listing my supervisor as a co-author?
This work was a personal research conducted during my thesis. After one year of my graduation, I completed the results but in a different place from where I did my thesis. Am I allowed to publish this work now without listing the name of my thesis supervisor knowing that this work wasn't included in the thesis project. Please help me.
You question misses out a few important details. You have mentioned that you conducted this personal research during your "thesis." I am not very sure what you mean by this. Did you start this research while you were doing your PhD? Was it a part of the research that you conducted for your thesis? Did your supervisor have any intellectual input in the study design? Did you use your institute's resources to conduct this study? Knowing these details would have made it easier for me to answer your question.
According to the ICMJE guidelines, anyone who fulfills all of the following criteria should be given authorship:
1. Contributes significantly to the conception, design, execution, and/or analysis and interpretation of data
2. Participates in drafting and/or revising part of the manuscript for intellectual content
3. Approves of the version to be published
4. Agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work
If your supervisor fulfills the above criteria, you will have to make him/her a co-author. If the research was part of the research that you conducted for your thesis (which your supervisor was mentoring), it might naturally make him/her a co-author, since he/she must have given intellectual inputs and been involved in reviewing the manuscript. If however, your supervisor was not involved in the above mentioned activities, but has made minor contributions, you should acknowledge his/her contribution in the acknowledgements section of your manuscript.
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