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  "id": 641713,
  "title": "Clarification about co-authorship invitation for top 10 performing teams",
  "url": "/competitions/adaptive-immune-profiling-challenge-2025/discussion/641713",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-11-27T07:56:30.021814400Z",
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  "content": "<p>Thank you for preparing this well-organized and scientifically grounded competition. I have two related questions about co-authorship for the mentioned Nature Methods paper:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?</li>\n<li>If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?</li>\n</ul>",
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      "id": "3349984",
      "postDate": "11/27/2025 07:56:30",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for preparing this well-organized and scientifically grounded competition. I have two related questions about co-authorship for the mentioned Nature Methods paper:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?</li>\n<li>If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?</li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for preparing this well-organized and scientifically grounded competition. I have two related questions about co-authorship for the mentioned Nature Methods paper:\n\n- For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?\n- If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?",
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      "id": "3350090",
      "postDate": "11/27/2025 10:11:19",
      "content": "<p>Thank you, and good questions!</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>They will be listed as individual named authors.</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>There can be up to two included authors per top-10 submission given that they have contributed in line with the so-called Vancouver convention recommendations. We will be willing to discuss exemptions to this general policy to even go beyond that if good reasons are given up front. In such a case, we recommend that teams contact us up front. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you, and good questions!\n\n>For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?\n\nThey will be listed as individual named authors.\n\n>If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?\n\nThere can be up to two included authors per top-10 submission given that they have contributed in line with the so-called Vancouver convention recommendations. We will be willing to discuss exemptions to this general policy to even go beyond that if good reasons are given up front. In such a case, we recommend that teams contact us up front.",
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      "author_name": "ckanduri",
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      "post_date": "11/27/2025 10:11:19",
      "content": "<p>Thank you, and good questions!</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>They will be listed as individual named authors.</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>There can be up to two included authors per top-10 submission given that they have contributed in line with the so-called Vancouver convention recommendations. We will be willing to discuss exemptions to this general policy to even go beyond that if good reasons are given up front. In such a case, we recommend that teams contact us up front. </p>",
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    "3349984": "Thank you for preparing this well-organized and scientifically grounded competition. I have two related questions about co-authorship for the mentioned Nature Methods paper:\n\n- For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?\n- If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?",
    "3350090": "Thank you, and good questions!\n\n>For teams finishing in the top 10 on the final leaderboard, will they be listed as individual named authors or as a collective working group (e.g., \"AIRR-ML-25 Kaggle Working Group\")?\n\nThey will be listed as individual named authors.\n\n>If a team consists of multiple members (e.g., 2 collaborators) and finishes in the top 10, will all team members be invited as co-authors, or only the team leader?\n\nThere can be up to two included authors per top-10 submission given that they have contributed in line with the so-called Vancouver convention recommendations. We will be willing to discuss exemptions to this general policy to even go beyond that if good reasons are given up front. In such a case, we recommend that teams contact us up front."
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