The author is explicitly arguing to expand our conception of collaboration in the research process, particularly around the notion of analytical contributions. She argues that data collection and preparation are shot through with analytical choices that will be pivotal to whatever publication results from data analysis. Thus, the act of identifying “authorship” with the person(s) who wrote (or sometimes merely submits for publication) the words of an academic artifact is tantamount to erasure, appropriation, or at worst, theft of others’ analytical contributions.
