Percentage-based Author Contribution Index: a universal measure of author contribution to scientific articles.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Deciphering the amount of work provided by different co-authors of a scientific paper has been a recurrent problem in science. Despite the myriad of metrics available, the scientific community still largely relies on the position in the list of authors to evaluate contributions, a metric that attributes subjective and unfounded credit to co-authors. We propose an easy to apply, universally comparable and fair metric to measure and report co-authors contribution in the scientific literature.

Methods

The proposed Author Contribution Index (ACI) is based on contribution percentages provided by the authors, preferably at the time of submission. Researchers can use ACI to compare the contributions of different authors, describe the contribution profile of a particular

SUBMITTER: Boyer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5803580 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature