The co‐first and co‐corresponding author phenomenon in the

corresponding author  The corresponding author acts as the assigned manager of the paper The corresponding author is responsible for all activities related to the paper submission  The fairly well-known Charlesworth Author Services, for instance, state: “A corresponding author is the individual who, when working on a paper with multiple

Abbreviations: CA, corresponding author GENERAL ROLES OF THE CORRESPONDING AUTHOR The corresponding author is generally understood to be the person who Given that the corresponding author cannot be contacted to confirm if the nature of any figure manipulation merits retraction, would it be appropriate to

Correspondence details: Please provide an institutional email address for the corresponding author Full postal details are also needed by the publisher The corresponding author acts as the assigned manager of the paper The corresponding author is responsible for all activities related to the paper submission