Transparent author credit

Author Credit for Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Transdisciplinary collaboration is the key for innovation. An evaluation mechanism is necessary to ensure that academic credit for this costly process can be allocated fairly among coauthors. This paper proposes a set of quantitative measures (e.g., t_credit and t_index) to reflect authors' transdisciplinary contributions to publications. These measures are based on paper-topic probability dist...

Author credit-assignment schemas: A comparison and analysis

Credit assignment to multiple authors of a publication is a challenging task, due to the conventions followed within different areas of research. In this study we present a review of different author credit-assignment schemas, which are designed mainly based on author rank and the total number of coauthors on the publication. We implemented, tested, and classified 15 author credit-assignment sc...

Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications

January 2007 | Volume 5 | Issue 1 | e18 Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications Teja Tscharntke, Michael E. Hochberg, Tatyana A. Rand, Vincent H. Resh, Jochen Krauss The increasing tendency across scientifi c disciplines to write multiauthored papers [1,2] makes the issue of the sequence of contributors’ names a major topic both in terms of refl ecting actual ...

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Author Index