Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields

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Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, João M.
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Cortez, Paulo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/68503
Resumo: Paper authorship and author placement have significant consequences for accountability and assignment of credit. Moreover, authors in different scientific fields tend to follow distinct approaches towards their ordering in scholarly publications. This manuscript presents a bibliometric study aiming to characterize the trends in the adoption of alphabetically ordered lists of authors in scholarly publications for 27 scientific fields. The study is supported by two different datasets (with 83 and 32 thousand papers that have two or more authors) and uses two indicators that measure the degree of order of the authors list of a set of articles. The main results show that three fields (Economics; Mathematics; and Business, Management and Accounting) have a strong alphabetic ordering usage, while other five scientific areas present some tendency to use lists of authors in alphabetic order.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
title Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
spellingShingle Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
Fernandes, João M.
Authors order
Bibliometrics
Scholarly publication
Scientific authorship
Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação
Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais
Science & Technology
title_short Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
title_full Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
title_fullStr Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
title_full_unstemmed Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
title_sort Alphabetic order of authors in scholarly publications: a bibliometric study for 27 scientific fields
author Fernandes, João M.
author_facet Fernandes, João M.
Cortez, Paulo
author_role author
author2 Cortez, Paulo
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fernandes, João M.
Cortez, Paulo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Authors order
Bibliometrics
Scholarly publication
Scientific authorship
Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação
Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais
Science & Technology
topic Authors order
Bibliometrics
Scholarly publication
Scientific authorship
Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação
Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais
Science & Technology
description Paper authorship and author placement have significant consequences for accountability and assignment of credit. Moreover, authors in different scientific fields tend to follow distinct approaches towards their ordering in scholarly publications. This manuscript presents a bibliometric study aiming to characterize the trends in the adoption of alphabetically ordered lists of authors in scholarly publications for 27 scientific fields. The study is supported by two different datasets (with 83 and 32 thousand papers that have two or more authors) and uses two indicators that measure the degree of order of the authors list of a set of articles. The main results show that three fields (Economics; Mathematics; and Business, Management and Accounting) have a strong alphabetic ordering usage, while other five scientific areas present some tendency to use lists of authors in alphabetic order.
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