background: authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. objective: to document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. methods: an anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a new zealand university. results: 43 academics responded, a respo...

By publishing papers together, academic authors can form a co-authorship network, modeling the collaboration among them. This paper presents a data-driven study by crawling and analyzing the vast majority of author profiles of Google Scholar. We make the following major contributions: (1) We present a demographic analysis and get an informative overview of the authors from different aspects, su...

We organize a statistician's potential scientific and intellectual contributions to a medical study into three types of activities relating to design, implementation and analysis. For each type, we describe high-level, mid-level and low-level contributions. Using this framework, we develop a point system to assess whether authorship is justified. Although we recommend discussion and resolution ...

The field of educational multimedia, hypermedia and communications has been explored for more than 15 years in the ED-MEDIA conference. This paper presents a bibliometric and scientometric analysis of the researchers and papers that have been part of ED-MEDIA during these years. The authorship, co-authorship, citation and co-citation analysis are conducted to evaluate the characteristics of ED-...

In order to capture the effects of social ties in knowledge diffusion, this paper examines the publication network that emerges from the collaboration of researchers, using citation information as means to estimate knowledge flow. For this purpose, we analyzed the papers published in the PLOS ONE journal finding strong evidence to support that the closer two authors are in the co-authorship net...

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 ...

Author name disambiguation deals with clustering the same-name authors into different individuals. To attack the problem, many studies have employed a variety of disambiguation features such as coauthors, titles of papers/publications, topics of articles, emails/affiliations, etc. Among these, co-authorship is the most easily accessible and influential, since inter-person acquaintances represen...