We argue that the emerging practice of using the author byline to acknowledge shared data is incompatible with current established standards for academic authorship. Non-author contributors, whether groups or individuals, should not be added to the author list of published papers. Deviation from these principles devalues authorship and raises issues, such as equal treatment of groups and indivi...

In this paper, we present a case study of predicting topics of scientific papers using a co-authorship graph. Co-authorship graphs constitute a specific view on bibliographic data, where scientific publications are modelled as a graph’s nodes, and two nodes are linked by an undirected edge whenever the two corresponding papers share at least one author. We apply a simple collective classificati...

Authorship attribution, the science of inferring characteristics of the author from the characteristics of documents written by that author, is a problem with a long history and a wide range of application. Recent work in “non-traditional” authorship attribution demonstrates the practicality of automatically analyzing documents based on authorial style, but the state of the art is confusing. An...

When a group of individuals creates something, credit is usually divided among them. Oddly, that does not apply to scientific papers. The most commonly used performace measure for individual researchers is the h-index, which does not correct for multiple authors. Each author claims full credit for each paper and each ensuing citation. This mismeasure of achievement is fuelling a flagrant increa...

Many Internet users face the problem of anonymous documents and texts with a counterfeit authorship. The number of questionable documents exceeds the capacity of human experts, therefore a universal automated authorship identification system supporting all types of documents is needed. In this paper, five predominant document types are analysed in the context of the authorship verification: boo...

The aim of this paper was to expand the knowledge about the characteristics of publications in the business administration and economics fields in Latin America. Previous research studies had characterized the publications and authorship pattern of the region, but did not include a measure of the quality of the journals in which the publications appeared nor a characterization of authorship pat...

Multiple authorship is so common and pervasive in our world that it is tempting to take it for granted. Prior to the twentieth century, however, multiple authorship was exceedingly rare. This essay addresses the issue of whether in the past collaboration was less common or was acknowledged in different forms. I focus on the 1660s circle of intellectuals fluctuating around the Cimento Academy be...

I thank Dr. Kakuk for his response to my article. Unfortunately, he seems to have misunderstood my arguments. He claims that I “fail to differentiate the problem of authorship from the problem of IFs usage”. In fact, I never actually directly linked these two problems, except to say that both trap researchers in a prisoner’s dilemma. Kakuk also claims that “The inappropriate usage of IF is not ...

Retraction notices appear regularly in many scholarly journals, especially top-tier journals of science and engineering. One disconcerting feature of this emergent genre is evasion of authorship, that is, the deliberate obscuring of who has authored a particular retraction notice. This communication illustrates and discusses problems of evaded authorship of retraction notices. To address these ...

The problem of authorship attribution – attributing texts to their original authors – has been an active research area since the end of the 19th century, attracting increased interest in the last decade. Most of the work on authorship attribution focuses on scenarios with only a few candidate authors, but recently considered cases with tens to thousands of candidate authors were found to be muc...