Opinion: Authors overestimate their contribution to scientific work, demonstrating a strong bias
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Patterns of authors contribution in scientific manuscripts
Science is becoming increasingly more interdisciplinary, giving rise to more diversity in the areas of expertise within research labs and groups. This also have brought changes to the role researchers in scientific works. As a consequence, multi-authored scientific papers have now became a norm for high quality research. Unfortunately, such a phenomenon induces bias to existing metrics employed...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003500117