Authorship order and effects of changing bibliometrics practices

Although the authorship order on published research plays a significant role for scientific merit in many research contexts, and therefore should be handled with great care not least for the sake of fairness, the practices of accrediting authorship positions vary greatly between different research a...

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Published inResearch ethics review Vol. 16; no. 1-2; pp. 1 - 7
Main Author Helgesson, Gert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2020
SAGE Publishing
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Authors
Bibliometrics
Ethics
Justice
Role
Writing for Publication
practice
Authorship order
research ethics
bibliometrics
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Summary:Although the authorship order on published research plays a significant role for scientific merit in many research contexts, and therefore should be handled with great care not least for the sake of fairness, the practices of accrediting authorship positions vary greatly between different research areas. This paper makes the point, by help of a current example, that changes in bibliometrics practices may make an already disparate landscape even more confusing.
ISSN:1747-0161
2047-6094
DOI:10.1177/1747016119898403