Credit attribution and collaborative work

Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit

Key points • As the number of authors on scientific publications increases, ordered lists of author names are proving inadequate for the purposes of attribution and credit. • A multi-stakeholder group has produced a contributor role taxonomy for use in scientific publications. • Identifying specific contributions to published research will lead to appropriate credit, fewer author disputes, and ...

Stylometric Authorship Attribution of Collaborative Documents

Stylometry is the study of writing style based on linguistic features and is typically applied to authorship attribution problems. In this work, we apply stylometry to a novel dataset of multi-authored documents collected from Wikia using both relaxed classification with a support vector machine (SVM) and multi-label classification techniques. We define five possible scenarios and show that one...

Collaborative Research: NeTS—FIND: Privacy-Preserving Attribution and Provenence

Conceptualizing Virtual Collaborative Work

The purpose of this paper is to define the phenomena associated with virtual collaborative work from both a cognitive and social cognitive perspective. The authors put forth an approach that assumes all people are natural sense-makers, sense-givers and organizers. The authors posit that the collaborative work we observe within both informal (ad hoc teams or communities) and formal (organization...

Collaborative research networks work.

Brazil was heralded for completion of the first genome sequence of a plant pathogen following the development of a virtual research center - a collaborative network of laboratories throughout the state of São Paulo, drawing on the expertise of a dispersed and diverse scientific community and on investment from both the government and the private sector. Strategies key to the success of this mod...