The CalculAuthor: determining authorship using a simple-to-use, fair, objective, and transparent process.

ABSTRACT: Authorship determination on a research article remains a largely subjective process. Existing guidelines on authorship taxonomy lack objectivity and are more useful in determining who deserves authorship rather than determining the order of authors. To promote best practices in authorship taxonomy, we developed an authorship rubric that provides a fair, objective, and transparent means of crediting authorship. We christened this tool the "CalculAuthor". The following steps are to be undertaken to create a scoring system based on the requirements of the projects: determining creditable criteria, assigning credit weightages, deciding levels of contribution, determining each author's contribution, calculating authorship scores and ranking. These must be performed by or in close collaboration

SUBMITTER: Martins RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10640724 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature