Paper authorship and author placement have significant consequences for accountability and assignment of credit. Moreover, authors in different scientific fields tend to follow distinct approaches towards their ordering in scholarly publications. This manuscript presents a bibliometric study aiming to characterize the trends in the adoption of alphabetically ordered lists of authors in scholarly publications for 27 scientific fields. The study is supported by two different datasets (with 83 and 32 thousand papers that have two or more authors) and uses two indicators that measure the degree of order of the authors list of a set of articles. The main results show that three fields (Economics; Mathematics; and Business, Management and Accounting) have a strong alphabetic ordering usage, while other five scientific areas present some tendency to use lists of authors in alphabetic order.

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学术出版物中作者的字母顺序：27 个科学领域的文献计量研究

论文作者身份和作者位置对责任和信用分配具有重大影响。此外，不同科学领域的作者在学术出版物中的排序往往遵循不同的方法。这份手稿提出了一项文献计量研究，旨在描述在 27 个科学领域的学术出版物中采用按字母顺序排列的作者列表的趋势。该研究由两个不同的数据集支持（83 篇和 32000 篇论文有两位或更多作者），并使用两个指标来衡量一组文章的作者列表的排序程度。主要结果表明，三个领域（经济学；数学；以及商业、管理和会计）具有很强的字母排序用法，