The order in which authors of a scientific paper place their names on the byline follows in many research fields some implicit rules. In most fields, the first author is considered to be the one who contributed most to the intellectual effort described in the paper. Additionally, the last author is normally the most senior researcher and in many situations the contribution to the paper is more indirect. In this manuscript, we intend to analyse the evolution of the positions of computer science (CS) researchers on the bylines of scientific papers throughout their careers. In particular, this bibliometic study considers the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows (the most prestigious members) that present a long and rich publication record. Our hypothesis is that young CS authors tend to have their names placed in the first positions of the bylines, while senior CS researchers are often considered as last authors. Several statistical analyses were conducted by using biblometric data collected from ACM Fellows and other CS researchers. Overall, the obtained results do confirm our initial hypothesis.

在许多研究领域中，科学论文的作者将其名字放在副标题上的顺序遵循一些隐含的规则。在大多数领域中，第一作者被认为是对本文所述知识工作做出最大贡献的人。此外，最后一位作者通常是最资深的研究人员，在许多情况下，对本文的贡献更为间接。在这份手稿中，我们打算分析计算机科学（CS）研究人员在其整个职业生涯中在科学论文的基础上所处位置的演变。尤其是，这项参考文献研究考虑了具有长期丰富出版记录的计算机协会（ACM）研究员（最负盛名的成员）。我们的假设是，年轻的CS作家倾向于将其姓名放在下划线的首位，而高级CS研究者通常被认为是最后的作者。通过使用从ACM研究员和其他CS研究人员收集的文献计量数据，进行了一些统计分析。总体而言，获得的结果确实证实了我们的最初假设。