Attributing credit to coauthors in academic publishing: The 1/n rule, parallelization, and team bonuses

Louis de Mesnard

European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, vol. 260, issue 2, 778-788

Abstract: Universities looking to recruit or to rank researchers have to attribute credit scores to their academic publications. While they could use indexes, there remains the difficulty of coauthored papers. It is unfair to count an n-authored paper as one paper for each coauthor, i.e., as n papers added to the total: this is “feeding the multitude” . Sharing the credit among coauthors by percentages or by simply dividing by n (“1/n rule”) is fairer but somewhat harsh. Accordingly, we propose to take into account the productivity gains of parallelization by introducing a parallelization bonus that multiplies the credit allocated to each coauthor.

Keywords: OR in scientometrics; Academic publishing; 1/n rule; Parallelization; Productivity gains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.01.009

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