Mapping the Universe from the Milky Way to the Big Bang

Collaboration and authorship policy

Cosmoglobe is a collaboration between individual scientists aiming to understand the microwave sky, working together within an Open Science framework. Active participation is strongly encouraged at all career levels, from Master students to tenured professors, and new collaborators are welcome at any time. 

To safeguard the contributions from individuals while still working openly within a larger collaboration, we define three types of papers:

• External papers: Papers that utilize public Cosmoglobe codes, data or products independently of previous work in the collaboration; these are not Cosmoglobe papers, and not affected by Cosmoglobe policies.  
• Special papers: Papers that concern specialized Cosmoglobe topics that are developed independently from the larger collaboration, but may use internal knowledge or unpublished results. These should be acknowledged with Cosmoglobe in the title. 
• General papers: Papers that concern the core Cosmoglobe framework and its products, and are developed collectively within the collaboration. These should be acknowledged with Cosmoglobe in the title, and all Cosmoglobe collaborators have the option of co-authoring the paper according to an "opt-in" action.

To have co-authorship rights to general Cosmoglobe papers, one must have been working actively as a Cosmoglobe collaborator for at least six months within the last two years, and fulfil at least one of the following conditions:

• Having led or co-led a previous Cosmoglobe paper (i.e., first-tier level authorship)
• Having led integration of a new experiment into Cosmoglobe
• Having contributed substantial amounts of software
• Having provided funding

Special cases not covered by these rules can be approved by the Cosmoglobe PI on a case-by-case basis.

General Cosmoglobe papers will normally have a multi-tier author list, consisting of one or more first-authors (main paper leads); an alphabetical first-tier author list of direct paper contributors; and an alphabetical second-tier author list of general Cosmoglobe collaborators. 

Only individual scientists can be a Cosmoglobe collaborator, not entire experiments. However, experiment partnerships are strongly encouraged, and interactions between Cosmoglobe and a given experiment can be defined through an explicit Memorandum of Understanding on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the particular needs of the experiment.