A measure of authorship by publications

Abstract

Measuring publication success of a researcher is a complicated task as publications are often co‐authored by multiple authors, and so, it requires comparison of solo publications with joint publications. In this paper, like Price (1981), we argue for an egalitarian perspective in accomplishing this task. More specifically, we justify the need for an ethical perspective in quantifying academic author by identifying certain ethical difficulties of some popular contemporary indices used for this purpose. And then we show that for any given dataset of research papers, the unique method satisfying the ethical notions of identity independence and performance invariance must be the egaliatarian E‐index proposed by Bose, Pal, and Sappington (2010) and Price (1981). In our setting, this egalitarian method divides authorship of joint projects equally among authors and sums across all publications of each author.

Coauthorship in academic journals: Implications for international collaboration and alliances

“…It should also be noted that the editorial policy of Organization Science is to let the authors decide the order of authorship listing without explicitly advocating a particular preference. Mukherjee, Basu, and Alam (2019) have developed an egalitarian index that divides authorship of joint projects equally among authors and sums across all publications of each author.…”

“…1 1 On page 903 of the Code of Ethical Conduct, The Academy of Management Journal , Volume 33(4), 1990, there is a recommendation for nonalphabetical author listing for manuscripts to be considered for publication at the Journal stating that “ Authorship and credit should be shared in correct proportion to the various parties' contributions.” It should also be noted that the editorial policy of Organization Science is to let the authors decide the order of authorship listing without explicitly advocating a particular preference. Mukherjee, Basu, and Alam (2019) have developed an egalitarian index that divides authorship of joint projects equally among authors and sums across all publications of each author.…”