Equal contributions and credit given to authors in anesthesiology journals during a 10-year period

Tianzhu Tao, Lulong Bo, Fei Wang, Jinbao Li and Xiaoming Deng ()
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Tianzhu Tao: Second Military Medical University
Lulong Bo: Second Military Medical University
Fei Wang: Second Military Medical University
Jinbao Li: Second Military Medical University
Xiaoming Deng: Second Military Medical University

Scientometrics, 2012, vol. 91, issue 3, No 23, 1005-1010

Abstract: Abstract To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of the practice of explicitly giving authors equal credit in publications of major anesthesiology journals. Four major anesthesiology journals (Anesthesia and Analgesia (AA), Anesthesiology, British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) and Pain) were searched manually to identify original research articles published between January 1st, 2001 and December 31st, 2010 with respect to equally credited authors (ECAs). It was found that all journals explicitly gave authors equal credit, and articles with ECAs accounted for a greater proportion of the total number of articles published in each journal in 2010 versus that in 2000 (AA: 3.3% vs. 0%; Anesthesiology: 7.1% vs.

Keywords: Authorship; Equal contribution; Anesthesiology; Publications; 62D05 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Y10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0558-8

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