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Authorship

Why do you need one author to write a scientific paper in philosophy and up to 5,154 for one physics? How far better must philosophers be in typewriting if they manage to the job of over 5,000 physicists? As of 1 June 2017 we start this blog by looking at the use of authorship in scholarly publishing. How is authorship spelled in different scientific disciplines? How did evolve in the last years? What do you, as a scientist, need to contribute to a scientific project, to call yourself an author of a respective publication? We analysed a bibliographic data base with more than with more than 22000 peer-reviewed journals and in 27 subject areas to answer these questions. Now we want to share our results.

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Power and Publications in Chinese Academia

Power and Publications in Chinese Academia

Ruixue Jia on the influence of administrative power in Chinese academia on researchers’ publication activity, their selection of co-authors, and the topics they are writing about.

Jia, Ruixue
Authorship revised

Authorship revised

Do you want a piece of the cake? Making a compromise between 2.1 and 1.268

Christian Kobsda, Martin Schmidt, Benedikt Fecher
Putting data before the carrot

Putting data before the carrot

Self-citations and academic assessments: Including the s-index as an additional metric thus provides important context to guide decisions based on academic value.

Justin W. Flatt, Alessandro Blasimme, Effy Vayena
Authorship in mathematics

Authorship in mathematics

The 20 highest performing authors in Mathematics publish third most articles but have comparably low bibliometrics.

Martin Schmidt, Benedikt Fecher, Christian Kobsda
Chemically linked authors

Chemically linked authors

Bibliometrics for the subject areas Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, as well as Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Pharmaceutics for the 20 highest performing authors

Martin Schmidt, Benedikt Fecher, Christian Kobsda
The Arts and the authorship

The Arts and the authorship

Bibliometrics for the subject areas Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences for the 20 highest performing authors.

Martin Schmidt, Benedikt Fecher, Christian Kobsda

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