corresponding auhtor就是和杂志编辑联系的作者如果，杂志有单独列出了contact author，有可能就是第一作者，或者其他可以很方便联系的作者。因为，很多corresponding author根本就不经常上邮箱。What is Contact Author and Corresponding AuthorContact AuthorThis is the person whose information will populate the PROLE_AUTHOR tags and will thus receive all correspondence directed to ##PROLE_AUTHOR_EMAIL##The contact author by default will be the first person added to the author list (but not necessarily the author ordered first in the list) Assuming that a site adds the submitting author by default， then that person will be the contact author UNLESS they removed themselves from the list and then readded themselves after adding someone Aside from this， the submitter will not have the ability to specifically select the contact Corresponding AuthorThis is an option flag collected at submission that does not do anything within ScholarOne Manuscripts except to flag the respective person in the XML during If a site collects the corresponding author flag， then this will be whoever the submitter Otherwise， this will be the submitting The purpose of this is to specify who should be listed as the corresponding author when the paper is published in the ScholarOne Manuscripts treats this person different from the contact author as it may not be the same person that handles both
