Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is Alphabetical
In attributing individual credit for co-authored academic publications, one issue is how to <i>apportion</i> (unequal) credit, based on the order of authorship. Apportioning credit for completed joint undertakings has always been a challenge. Academic promotion committees are faced with...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/9/927 |
| Summary: | In attributing individual credit for co-authored academic publications, one issue is how to <i>apportion</i> (unequal) credit, based on the order of authorship. Apportioning credit for completed joint undertakings has always been a challenge. Academic promotion committees are faced with such tasks regularly, when trying to infer a candidate’s contribution to an article they coauthored with others. We propose a method for achieving this goal in disciplines (such as the author’s) where the default order is alphabetical. The credits are those maximizing Shannon entropy subject to order constraints. |
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| ISSN: | 1099-4300 |