The Corresponding Author is the person who is responsible for the manuscript as it moves through the journal's submission process. This person must be registered with the Elsevier Editorial System as all correspondence pertaining to the manuscript will be sent to him/her via the system. The Corresponding Author is, by default, the author who initially uploads the manuscript into Editorial Manager. It's normally the last author (, which is a "senior author") in the title, and seldom the "first author" (first name in the title).
The Corresponding Author is the person responsible for making any edits/submitting revisions to the manuscript and is the only author connected to the manuscript who may view the progress of the manuscript as it moves from one stage to the next.
--http://support.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/586/~/who-and-what-is-the-corresponding-author%3F
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"This term means literally the person who handles correspondence regarding a paper, but by implication and practice, it also identifies a guarantor of the published work. We now state explicitly that the corresponding author must be a guarantor of a significant part or all of the work."
--http://www.pnas.org/content/101/29/10495.full
