What Constitutes Authorship in the Social Sciences?
Author : Gernot Pruschak Authorship represents a highly discussed topic in nowadays academia. The share of co-authored papers has increased substantially in rec...
Étiquette : authorship
Unconsented acknowledgments as a form of authorship abuse: What can be done about it?
Author : Mladen Koljatic Unwelcome or unconsented acknowledgments is an unethical practice seldom addressed. It constitutes a form of authorship abuse perpetrat...
International authorship and collaboration across bioRxiv preprints
Authors : Richard J Abdill, Elizabeth M Adamowicz, Ran Blekhman Preprints are becoming well established in the life sciences, but relatively little is known abo...
Hostage authorship and the problem of dirty hands
Authors : William Bülow, Gert Helgesson This article discusses gift authorship, the practice where co-authorship is awarded to a person who has not contributed ...
A Multi-match Approach to the Author Uncertainty Problem
Authors: Stephen F. Carley, Alan L. Porter, Jan L. Youtie Purpose The ability to identify the scholarship of individual authors is essential for performance eva...
Large publishing consortia produce higher citation impact research but co-author contributions are hard to evaluate
Author : Mike Thelwall This paper introduces a simple agglomerative clustering method to identify large publishing consortia with at least 20 authors and 80% sh...
Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories
Authors : Gregory S. Patience, Federico Galli, Paul A. Patience, Daria C. Boffito Authorship is the currency of an academic career for which the number of paper...