Harmonic publication and citation counting: sharing authorship credit equitably – not equally, geometrically or arithmetically
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Harmonic Allocation of Authorship Credit: Source-Level Correction of Bibliometric Bias Assures Accurate Publication and Citation Analysis
Authorship credit for multi-authored scientific publications is routinely allocated either by issuing full publication credit repeatedly to all coauthors, or by dividing one credit equally among all coauthors. The ensuing inflationary and equalizing biases distort derived bibliometric measures of merit by systematically benefiting secondary authors at the expense of primary authors. Here I show...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientometrics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0138-9130,1588-2861
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0129-4