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Crediting multi-authored papers to single authors
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 , DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.124652
Anna Tietze , Serge Galam , Philip Hofmann

A fair assignment of credit for multi-authored publications is a long-standing issue in scientometrics. In the calculation of the h-index, for instance, all co-authors receive equal credit for a given publication, independent of a given author’s contribution to the work or of the total number of co-authors. Several attempts have been made to distribute the credit in a more appropriate manner. In a recent paper, Hirsch has suggested a new way of credit assignment that is fundamentally different from the previous ones: All credit for a multi-author paper goes to a single author, the called “α-author”, defined as the person with the highest current h-index (not the highest h-index at the time of the paper’s publication) (Hirsch, 2019). The collection of papers this author has received credit for as α-author is then used to calculate a new index, hα, following the same recipe as for the usual h index. The objective of this new assignment is not a fairer distribution of credit, but rather the determination of an altogether different property, the degree of a person’s scientific leadership. We show that given the complex time dependence of h for individual scientists, the approach of using the current h value instead of the historic one is problematic, and we argue that it would be feasible to determine the α-author at the time of the paper’s publication instead. On the other hand, there are other practical considerations that make the calculation of the proposed hα very difficult. As an alternative, we explore other ways of crediting papers to a single author in order to test early career achievement or scientific leadership.



中文翻译:

将多作者论文归功于单作者

公平分配多作者出版物是科学计量学中的一个长期问题。在计算中H例如,-index,所有合著者对于给定的出版物都享有同等的信誉,而与给定作者对作品的贡献或合著者总数无关。已经进行了几次尝试以更适当的方式分配信用额。赫希(Hirsch)在最近的一篇论文中提出了一种新的学分分配方法,该方法与以前的方法有根本的不同:​​多作者论文的所有学分归单个作者所有,称为“α-作者”,即最新的人 H-index(不是最高H论文发表时的索引)(Hirsch,2019)。作者的论文集已被认可为α然后使用-author来计算新索引, Hα,遵循与通常相同的食谱 H指数。这项新任务的目的不是公平分配信贷,而是确定完全不同的财产,一个人的科学领导程度。我们表明,鉴于复杂的时间依赖性H 对于个别科学家,使用当前方法 H 价值而不是历史价值是有问题的,我们认为确定 α-在论文发表时改为作者。另一方面,还有其他一些实际考虑因素会影响提议的计算Hα 非常困难。作为替代方案,我们探索将论文记入单个作者的其他方式,以测试早期的职业成就或科学领导力。

更新日期:2020-05-08
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