The Authorship Dilemma: Alphabetical or Contribution?
Authors : Margareta Ackerman, Simina Brânzei Scientific communities have adopted different conventions for ordering authors on publications. Are these choices i...
Étiquette : authorship
Linking Behavior in the PER Coauthorship Network
Authors : Katharine A. Anderson, Matthew Crespi, Eleanor C. Sayre There is considerable long-term interest in understanding the dynamics of collaboration networ...
Patterns of authors contribution in scientific manuscripts
Authors : Edilson A. Corrêa Jr., Filipi N. Silv, Luciano da F. Costa, Diego R. Amancio Science is becoming increasingly more interdisciplinary, giving rise to m...
What Motivates Authors of Scholarly Articles? The Importance of Journal Attributes and Potential Audience on Publication Choice
Authors : Carol Tenopir, Elizabeth Dalton, Allison Fish, Lisa Christian, Misty Jones, MacKenzie Smith In this article we examine what motivations influence acad...
Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across fields and over time
Authors : Molly M. King, Carl T. Bergstrom, Shelley J. Correll, Jennifer Jacquet, Jevin D. West How common is self-citation in scholarly publication and does th...
Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production
Scientific authorship has been increasingly complemented with contributorship statements. While such statements are said to ensure more equitable credit and res...
Why scientific publications should be anonymous
Numerous studies have revealed biases within the scientific communication system and across all scientific fields. For example, already prominent researchers re...