In short, no. Career advice, line management, mentoring etc. is part of the job and does not necessarily constitute a specific scientific contribution. This is not supposed to be controversial. http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html#two …https://twitter.com/katlab_ucl/status/937978613823090688 …
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My supervisor (and his, and his, and his) encouraged me to write sole author papers, and to get involved in collaborations he wasn't involved with. I did so with my students, too, of course.
Of course, this isn't always possible. But I think it's very important, in part because learning taste, and to cultivate a set of ideas, and to carry them through to completion, is such an integral part of what it means to do research.
