The Evolution of Scientific Credit: When Authorship Norms Impede Collaboration
The Evolution of Scientific Credit: When Authorship Norms Impede Collaboration
arxiv.org The Evolution of Scientific Credit: When Authorship Norms Impede Collaboration
Scientific authorship norms vary dramatically across disciplines, from contribution-sensitive systems where first author is the greatest contributor and subsequent author order reflects relative input, to contribution-insensitive conventions like alphabetical ordering or senior-author-last. We devel...
An in depth look at a very narrow and specific set of norms, the consequences of which are rarely considered. I love stuff like this.
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