Authors and authorship

Multiple authorship: the contribution of senior authors.

CONTEXT The number of authors per article has increased markedly in recent years. Little is known about the hierarchical order of authorship and its change over time. OBJECTIVE To assess the change in number and profile of authors of original articles published over a 20-year period in BMJ. It was hypothesized that the number of authors increased over this 20-year period and that it was the s...

Authorship Attribution and Verification with Many Authors and Limited Data

Most studies in statistical or machine learning based authorship attribution focus on two or a few authors. This leads to an overestimation of the importance of the features extracted from the training data and found to be discriminating for these small sets of authors. Most studies also use sizes of training data that are unrealistic for situations in which stylometry is applied (e.g., forensi...

Automatic Co-authorship Network Extraction and Discovery of Central Authors

Scholarly publications are made available online by individual researchers on their home pages. The list of publications reflects the research work carried by individuals collaborating with one or more other researchers. Automatic extraction of author’s name from the list of publications is required to construct a co-authorship network for identification of prominent authors. This will aid the ...

Authorship Attribution of Internet Comments with Thousand Candidate Authors

In this paper we report the first authorship attribution results for the Lithuanian language using Internet comments with a thousand of candidate authors. The task is complicated due to the following reasons: large number of candidate authors, extremely short non-normative texts, and problems associated with morphologically and vocabulary rich language. The effectiveness of the proposed similar...

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