Trends in Authorship

Future Trends in Authorship Attribution

Authorship attribution, the science of inferring characteristics of an author from the characteristics of documents written by that author, is a problem with a long history and a wide range of application. This paper surveys the history and present state of the discipline – essentially a collection of ad hoc methods with little formal data available to select among them. It also makes some pred...

Bioethics authorship in context: how trends in biomedicine challenge bioethics.

Recent trends in co-authorship in economics: evidence from RePEc

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis we present evidence how the authorship of papers is related to the number of citations, the JEL classificatio...

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Reactive Tendencies of Bibliometric Indicators: Trends in the Alphabetization of Authorship in Economics and Information Science

The paper adds a category to the list of possible negative steering effects of bibliometric indicators with a category for changes in credit assignment. The results of a longitudinal study of credit assignment practices in the fields of economics and information science are presented. The practice of alphabetization of authorship is demonstrated to vary significantly between the two fields. A s...