Comments on: An Authorship Accelerator

By: Kevin Neff

Kevin Neff — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:41:32 +0000

Here’s a paper that examines the trend in authorship. The publication mentioned above is hardly typical, but the trend *is* up.

McDonald RJ, Neff KL, Rethlefsen ML, Kallmes DL. Effects of Contribution Disclosures and Numeric Limitations on Authorship Trends. Mayo Clin Proc, (2010) 85; 920-927.

By: Openness and Secrecy in Science — A Careful Balance « The Scholarly Kitchen

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:24:45 +0000

[...] in scientific journals. Scientists are good at collaborating, and you can see evidence of this in author lists, which seem to grow longer, recognizing more contributors, and involving more institutional bodies in more countries each [...]

By: Partial Publication Credit « The Scholarly Kitchen

Partial Publication Credit « The Scholarly Kitchen — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:57:43 +0000

[...] are small author lists really the goal? Proportional publication credit would prevent most large-scale collaborative research, such as building the Large Hadron Collider or conducting multi-center clinical trials, since a [...]

By: Legalizing Authorship « The Scholarly Kitchen

Legalizing Authorship « The Scholarly Kitchen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:46:16 +0000

[...] Unlike high-energy physics, where authors are listed in alphabetical order, authorship order in the biomedical field conveys some meaning. The last author is typically the senior author, the one who is supposed to have overseen the research. In the case of the stem-cell controversy involving the South Korean researcher, Woo Suk Hwang, it was an American physiologist, Gerald P. Schatten who was listed as last author. [...]

By: The Invisible Author « The Scholarly Kitchen

The Invisible Author « The Scholarly Kitchen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:01:43 +0000

[...] we explored in last week’s post, author lists in high-energy physics have become fantastically long. From the late 1600s to the 1920s, sole authorship was the unwritten rule, and the one-paper : [...]