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সায়ন্তন রায় (Jun 24 2021 at 06:45):I am writing a paper in which I am the first author. I would like to make a personal dedication. Is it not an acceptable practice?
Fabrizio Genovese (Jun 24 2021 at 11:58):Usually at the end of the paper you can put an "acknowledgements" section where you can write stuff like "The first author wants to thank..."
Fabrizio Genovese (Jun 24 2021 at 11:59):This is used especially to acknowledge that the paper is part of some grant/project, but you can also use it to thanks whatever/whoever you want. I have very rarely seen proper dedications in a paper. Usually they are common in theses or books. Also, something like "the first author wants to dedicate the paper to..." sounds really strange. It sounds like you are deciding things by yourself without acknowledging your collaborators
Fabrizio Genovese (Jun 24 2021 at 12:00):A dedication should be concerted. Sometimes you can find it in the form of "this paper is dedicated to the memory of..." when someone in the community dies.
Fabrizio Genovese (Jun 24 2021 at 12:02):All things considered, if in a paper you want to acknowledge someone that is really special to you but not to the other authors or to the community, I'd go with a mention in the acknowledgements.
Mike Shulman (Jun 24 2021 at 13:35):I don't think "the first author wants to dedicate the paper to" sounds weird on its own. I agree it is unusual to dedicate an ordinary research paper, but I've certainly seen individual dedications by one of the authors on a multi-author paper and I didn't think it weird.
সায়ন্তন রায় (Jun 24 2021 at 13:59):I was thinking about more or less going along with @Mike Shulman's suggestion. I guess, so long as it is not getting in the way of the academic content of the paper, the editors are less likely to bother about it.
Mike Shulman (Jun 24 2021 at 16:20):I have trouble imagining anyone objecting to it.
Ian Coley (Jun 24 2021 at 20:18):See, e.g., https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00297.pdf for one solution.
Ian Coley (Jun 24 2021 at 20:19):As far as I know the paper will be published as it appears on arXiv
David Michael Roberts (Jun 25 2021 at 00:26):Sometimes people note things near to "On the occasion of X's Nth birthday".
I have a paper with an in-memoriam dedication to a someone I knew who died early while I was preparing it.
John Baez (Jun 25 2021 at 03:49):If you say "the first author wishes to dedicate the paper to X", it makes me wonder slightly why the other authors didn't want to. If you can get your coauthors to go along, you can say "We wish to dedicate the paper to X", and eliminate this slight cloud of doubt.
সায়ন্তন রায় (Jun 25 2021 at 04:33):Because it is a personal dedication, to be more precise, I would like this paper to dedicate to someone who is my family member, which is not that important to them, in the same way he is to me.
সায়ন্তন রায় (Jun 25 2021 at 05:13):Ian Coley said:
As far as I know the paper will be published as it appears on arXiv
It has been already published (cf. here).
John Baez (Jun 25 2021 at 06:13):সায়ন্তন রায় said:
Because it is a personal dedication, to be more precise, I would like this paper to dedicate to someone who is my family member, which is not that important to them, in the same way he is to me.
Oh. That's the sort of dedication most people would do in a sole-authored paper or book, not a jointly authored one. But I guess it's okay.
Robert Seely (Jun 25 2021 at 22:13):সায়ন্তন রায় said:
Because it is a personal dedication, to be more precise, I would like this paper to dedicate to someone who is my family member, which is not that important to them, in the same way he is to me.
I did this once in multi-author paper by attaching a footnote to my name in the header - following the usual acknowledgement to funding agency.
সায়ন্তন রায় (Jun 26 2021 at 05:38):That's the initial suggestion I got, but somehow I am not ok with writing dedication at the footnote. It is not that I am against it, but I guess it is more of a personal taste.
Peter Arndt (Jul 01 2021 at 15:20):I have had coauthors including personal dedications here and here, if you want more samples.