Timeline for How to get a research paper published after the author has died?
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| Jun 23, 2022 at 13:12 | history | edited | Yuval Peres | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2022 at 7:24 | comment | added | username | Elie Cartan : 1869-1951. 1945 is not that posthumous. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 23:48 | comment | added | KConrad | @TimothyChow the "nobody new" I had in mind were people becoming a co-author now rather than around the time he passed away. On the general topic raised by the OP, the first example that I thought of was Kornblum's paper proving Dirichlet's theorem in $\mathbf F_p[x]$ (see eudml.org/doc/167539 and hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/11771/who-was-heinrich-kornblum). It appeared in 1919 under his name but was prepared by Landau since Kornblum had died in 1914 as a soldier during WWI. I am sure the way things were done legally 100 years ago offer no lessons for today. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 22:13 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @KConrad At the time of Erdos's death, there were certainly quite a few papers in the pipeline with Erdos as a co-author. I remember a colleague joking that he would never publish as many papers as Erdos, even if we were to handicap Erdos by counting only Erdos's posthumously published papers. I'm not aware of anyone who added Erdos as a co-author illicitly, but I've certainly heard people joking about doing so. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 15:38 | comment | added | KConrad | "... someone who mentioned a result to a famous mathematician, and received some feedback, might decide to add the famous mathematician as a coauthor after their death, without giving that person a chance to protest." And until now I thought nobody new would ever get Erdos number 1. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 7:42 | comment | added | David White | Thanks for the post. These are interesting stories, but I don't think they answer the question. As I wrote, we may assume the deceased person wrote the paper alone, and intended to submit it for publication. So it's neither of the situations you describe. Plus, I'm asking for a step by step process to get such a paper published. Anecdotes are interesting, but not the point of the question. Thanks again for your interest. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 7:21 | history | answered | Yuval Peres | CC BY-SA 4.0 |