Division III.—Containing Alphabetical List of Authors

Division II.—Containing Alphabetical List of Papers

The rise of the middle author: Investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship

Contemporary biomedical research is performed by increasingly large teams. Consequently, an increasingly large number of individuals are being listed as authors in the bylines, which complicates the proper attribution of credit and responsibility to individual authors. Typically, more importance is given to the first and last authors, while it is assumed that the others (the middle authors) hav...

An empirical analysis of the use of alphabetical authorship in scientific publishing

There are different ways in which the authors of a scientific publication can determine the order in which their names are listed. Sometimes author names are simply listed alphabetically. In other cases, authorship order is determined based on the contribution authors have made to a publication. Contribution-based authorship can facilitate proper credit assignment, for instance by giving most c...

Who is an author

• Inter-disciplinary conventions. Different fields of study often have vastly different conventions when it comes to allocating authors. While a lot of disciplines tend to list authors in decreasing order of contribution, others may list authors in alphabetical order, regardless of the individual contribution. The issue of determining whether or not “lesser” contributors should be listed at all...

Aspects of Electrical Bioimpedance Spectrum Estimation

.................................................................................................................................................................. i Acknowledgement .............................................................................................................................................. iii List of Publications ...................................................