BACKGROUND Co-authorship is one of the most tangible forms of research collaboration. A co-authorship network is a social network in which the authors through participation in one or more publication through an indirect path have linked to each other. The present research using the social network analysis studied co-authorship network of 681 articles published in Journal of Research in Medical ...

There are different ways in which the authors of a scientific publication can determine the order in which their names are listed. Sometimes author names are simply listed alphabetically. In other cases, authorship order is determined based on the contribution authors have made to a publication. Contribution-based authorship can facilitate proper credit assignment, for instance by giving most c...

AIM To present the inappropriate types of authorship and practice, and the most recent developments related to basic principles and criteria to a fair system for allocating authorship in scientific publications. METHODS An analysis of relevant materials and documents, sources from the internet and published literature and personal experience and observations of the author. RESULTS Working i...

BACKGROUND Attitudes to, and practices of, scientific authorship vary. We have studied this variation among researchers in a university hospital and medical school in Norway. METHODS We invited all faculty, researchers and PhD students at Oslo University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (approximately 2700) by e-mail to answer a web-based questionnaire in January 2013....

CONTEXT It is not known whether articles with group authorship (ie, with a research group name listed as the author) are difficult to identify or whether use of group authorship may lead to problems with citation. METHODS To examine ways in which reports of controlled trials with group authorship are indexed and citations counted in bibliographic databases, we conducted a cross-sectional stud...

The data are in and the primary analysis is done. It has been 5 years since the principal investigator had the initial idea for the project, and since then many people have joined and left the funded research team. The study team consists of three coinvestigators; one of whom left the university partway through to pursue interests elsewhere. Other members of the team include a project coordinat...

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 20، دی 1400، 1064-1063       مقدمه‌‌‌ای بر انواع نویسندگی افتخاری   An Introduction to Honorary Authorship   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   تاکنون پیرامون مسائل و مشکلاتی که ممکن است در زمینه نویسندگی مقالات علمی مطرح گردد، موضوعات گوناگونی را به رشته تحریردر آورده‌ایم [5-1]. ازآن جمله، پیرامون انواع گوناگون وضعیت نویسن...

I compare the co-authorship patterns of male and female economists, using historical data on National Bureau Economic Research working papers. Men tended to work in smaller teams than women, but co-authored more papers so had co-authors overall. Both men women same-gender we would expect if co-authorships were random. This was especially true for Macro/Finance.

In this study, coefficient group collaboration and co-authorship papers published in Rostaniha journal (Botanical Journal of Iran) from 2000 to 2014 has been done. In addition,identifying the most active authors, organizations or institutions are involved in publishing articles group (co-authorship) and the countries with the highest participation and cooperation in the production of articles a...