Arbitration is needed to resolve scientific 1 authorship disputes 2 Zen Faulkes * 3 Department of Biology, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1201 West University 4 Drive, Edinburg, Texas, 78539, United States of America 5 * [email protected] 6 Short title: Authorship arbitration 7 Corresponding author: Zen Faulkes, [email protected] 8 Twitter: @DoctorZen 9 PeerJ Preprints | https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26987v1 | CC BY 4.0 Open Access | rec: 12 Jun 2018, publ: 12 Jun 2018