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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-a53a062e3d3146ee988ae7b11c2805362023-11-20T11:09:48ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002020-08-0122992710.3390/e22090927Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is AlphabeticalYigal Gerchak0Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, IsraelIn 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.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/9/927OR in Scientometricsjoint authorshipapportioning creditmaximum entropy |
| spellingShingle | Yigal Gerchak Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is Alphabetical Entropy OR in Scientometrics joint authorship apportioning credit maximum entropy |
| title | Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is Alphabetical |
| title_full | Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is Alphabetical |
| title_fullStr | Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is Alphabetical |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is Alphabetical |
| title_short | Inferring Authors’ Relative Contributions to Publications from the Order of Their Names When Default Order Is Alphabetical |
| title_sort | inferring authors relative contributions to publications from the order of their names when default order is alphabetical |
| topic | OR in Scientometrics joint authorship apportioning credit maximum entropy |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/9/927 |
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