Which position is valuable, the first author or the corresponding

The submitting author is the person who physically submits the manuscript online via their user account The corresponding author as indicated by the

The corresponding author is also responsible for liaising with co-authors regarding any editorial queries And, they act on behalf of all co-authors in any

authorization It appears that ever more frequently the corresponding author of a multi-author manuscript is not what heshe was originally supposed to be:

corresponding author There is nothing wrong in the first author or lead author being the corresponding author as well In fact, for single author papers, that is