Dear Flemming, As Jürgen said, what happened? Did A deposit the coordinate file in the pdb, but did not publish and did B take this coordinates and make a publication? Or did B ask A for the coordinates to have a look at and then made a publication without agreement of A? Did B hack the computer account of A and stole the coordinates?
In general, if a significant part of the publication of B were based on the coordinates produced by A, A should be coauthor. However, if the coordinates were deposited and A had ample time to write a publication, but did not do so, as Jürgen said, all A could ask for is to have his structure properly cited and acknowledged. Something about tactics: Institute heads tend to protect their own people, so if the head of institute B gets an email from someone he/she does not know complaining about one of the people of his/hers institute, the institute head may not find the time to go through the trouble of a misconduct investigation with may harm the reputation of the institute. However, if the head of institute A would learn that one of its people has been plagiarized by someone of institute B, the motivation to react will be much higher, especially if institute A and B are in a friendly competition. So if I were A, I would go the head of institute A and complain about the academic misconduct of B and discuss what steps could be taken. My 2 cents, Herman Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von Flemming Goery Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. August 2019 17:46 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: [EXTERNAL] [ccp4bb] need someone officially settle a pdb dispute for a publication EXTERNAL : Real sender is owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk Dear All, A and B belong to 2 different institutes. A claimed B has used his pdb for a publication in Journal C. Journal C did not give the retraction, but permit complain related to the journal publication author issue, with the prerequisite journal C did not have the authority on authorship dispute. Then A has e-mailed to the institute head of B with academic misconduct by B as claim, the institute head of B did not give reply. In this situation, can A have the journal authorship dispute settled by a neutral reviewer (Journal C view: you (A) need to reach out to the institutions that have authority to adjudicate on such matters, as investigation and adjudication on authorship claims falls outside the remit of journal editors. )? Who are qualified as the neutral reviewer so that the review decision can be submitted to Journal C? If you believe you are qualified, or you know somebody or some organization qualified, please let me know and I will introduce the issue to you by separate e-mail (it is best not disseminated, am I right?) Best regards. Flemming ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jiscmail.ac.uk_cgi-2Dbin_webadmin-3FSUBED1-3DCCP4BB-26A-3D1&d=DwMFoQ&c=Dbf9zoswcQ-CRvvI7VX5j3HvibIuT3ZiarcKl5qtMPo&r=HK-CY_tL8CLLA93vdywyu3qI70R4H8oHzZyRHMQu1AQ&m=rA5HRfvd_cvJE7fcoesLTYSqMfFfn_BfUzEoUmlqQBk&s=zm0kD-ILxk-mXNZAAXy28VzpgnenWA011r3doh4eves&e=> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
