About the order of corresponding authors (2 c.a.) - (Jul/15/2012 )
leelee I agree with you - first and senior author are improtant on their own. Coresponding authors usually gives extra weight to a second author who contributed equally to the work but is listed second and not first for what ever reason (alphabetical order, careere stage or whatever was used to decide). What I mean is that A, B, C, D, E and F have published a paper and A and B have contributed equally to the work (indicated by an asteriks or whatever). Means A and B are both first authors in terms of CV etc - but to make this more obvious to the reader B is corresponding author as well - because usually you look for the first and last author of a paper to see who was in charge of it.
Ah I see, I'm with you now 
(sorry for hijacking your thread, BlooDemon!) 
gebirgsziege on Tue Jul 17 07:52:00 2012 said:
leelee I agree with you - first and senior author are improtant on their own. Coresponding authors usually gives extra weight to a second author who contributed equally to the work but is listed second and not first for what ever reason (alphabetical order, careere stage or whatever was used to decide). What I mean is that A, B, C, D, E and F have published a paper and A and B have contributed equally to the work (indicated by an asteriks or whatever). Means A and B are both first authors in terms of CV etc - but to make this more obvious to the reader B is corresponding author as well - because usually you look for the first and last author of a paper to see who was in charge of it.
so you mean, basically, the last corresponding author is more responsible than the second last one in a paper with two corresponding authors as last two in order?
leelee
, you make me more clear-cut about author order stuff in a paper.