Is This an Honor?

Author(s): Caroline Whitbeck, Ph.D.

A colleague from another (non-English speaking) country asks you for help in preparing an article for a U.S. journal. After you offer comments that are mostly editorial in nature, the colleague insists that you should be a co-author. You do not think your contribution warrants co-authorship. You are too junior to be well known, but you are at a prestigious university. You do not want to seem rude.

What can and should you do?