Citation Indexes Accounting for Authorship Order in Coauthored Research-Review and New Proposal

Research articles' authorship confers credit and has important academic, social, and financial implications. After a paper is published, credit is harvested via citations. Currently, authorship order is not taken into account by the bibliometric citation indexes used in citation databases. It m...

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Published in:Science & technology libraries (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2016-10, Vol.35 (4), p.263-278
Main Authors: Abambres, Miguel, Arab, Paola
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accounting
Authoring
Authorship
authorship credit
Bibliometrics
bibliometry
Citation analysis
citation index
Citation indexes
co-authored research
Performance assessment
Performance evaluation
Performance indices
weighted citations
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Summary:Research articles' authorship confers credit and has important academic, social, and financial implications. After a paper is published, credit is harvested via citations. Currently, authorship order is not taken into account by the bibliometric citation indexes used in citation databases. It means that one gets the same measure of credit for a single- or first-authored article as for a multiauthored publication in which one is a middle author among other coauthors. This reality may not be appropriate, and it does matter since (1) it influences scientific performance assessment, which is extremely important at the time of recruitment or allocation of grants; and (2) it may affect scientific legacy. This work aims at recalling for the scientific community the need of change of the actual assessment paradigm by providing a review of the main bibliometric index and authorship credit models proposed in the literature as well as an original scientific performance evaluation method suggested by the authors.
ISSN:0194-262X
1541-1109
DOI:10.1080/0194262X.2016.1242450