NDLI: Fractional authorship in nuclear physics

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Pritychenko, B.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Large, multi-institutional groups or collaborations of scientists are engaged in nuclear physics research projects, and the number of research facilities is dwindling. These collaborations have their own authorship rules, and they produce a large number of highly-cited papers. Multiple authorship of nuclear physics publications creates a problem with the assessment of an individual author’s productivity relative to his/her colleagues and renders ineffective a performance metrics solely based on annual publication and citation counts. Many institutions are increasingly relying on the total number of first-author papers; however, this approach becomes counterproductive for large research collaborations with an alphabetical order of authors. A concept of fractional authorship (the claiming of credit for authorship by more than one individual) helps to clarify this issue by providing a more complete picture of research activities. In the present work, nuclear physics fractional and total authorships have been investigated using nuclear data mining techniques. Historic total and fractional authorship averages have been extracted from the Nuclear Science References database, and the current range of fractional contributions has been deduced. The results of this study and their implications are discussed and conclusions presented.
Ending Page	468
Page Count	8
Starting Page	461
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01389130
e-ISSN	15882861
Journal	Scientometrics
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	106
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-10-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) Nuclear data mining Scientific authorship Relational databases Information Storage and Retrieval Library Science Publication analysis Applications to physics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

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