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科技论文作者的投稿模式

Patterns of authors contribution in scientific manuscripts

Edilson A. Corrêa, Filipi N. Silva, Luciano da F. Costa, Diego R. Amancio

摘要:

科学正变得越来越多的跨学科,在研究实验室和团体内的专业领域产生更多的多样性。这也给科研人员在科研工作中的角色定位带来了变化。因此,多作者的科学论文现在已经成为高质量研究的规范。不幸的是,这样的现象会导致对用于评估研究人员的生产力和成功的现有指标的偏见。虽然一些指标被用来说明论文作者的排名,但许多期刊现在要求描述每位作者在出版物中的具体角色。令人惊讶的是,对作者等级与其贡献之间关系的调查仅限于少数研究。通过对这类数据的分析,我们定量地表明,作者贡献的规律性随着论文作者人数的增加而降低。此外,我们发现,作者的排名和他们在论文中的角色遵循三个一般模式,根据他们的贡献的性质,如写作,数据分析和实验的进行。这是通过收集和分析从PLoS ONE检索到的数据,并通过设计一种基于熵的测量方法来量化论文中作者的有效数量来实现的。对这种模式的分析证实,作者排名的某些方面符合预期的惯例,例如第一和最后一位作者更有可能在科学工作中做出更多贡献。相反,这种分析还表明,处于中间地位的作者在某些特定角色中贡献更多,例如收集数据的任务。这表明,对研究人员的公正评价必须考虑到不同类型的科学贡献。

英文摘要:

Science is becoming increasingly more interdisciplinary, giving rise to more diversity in the areas of expertise within research labs and groups. This also have brought changes to the role researchers in scientific works. As a consequence, multi-authored scientific papers have now became a norm for high quality research. Unfortunately, such a phenomenon induces bias to existing metrics employed to evaluate the productivity and success of researchers. While some metrics were adapted to account for the rank of authors in a paper, many journals are now requiring a description of the specific roles of each author in a publication. Surprisingly, the investigation of the relationship between the rank of authors and their contributions has been limited to a few studies. By analyzing such kind of data, here we show, quantitatively, that the regularity in the authorship contributions decreases with the number of authors in a paper. Furthermore, we found that the rank of authors and their roles in papers follows three general patterns according to the nature of their contributions, such as writing, data analysis, and the conduction of experiments. This was accomplished by collecting and analyzing the data retrieved from PLoS ONE and by devising an entropy-based measurement to quantify the effective number of authors in a paper according to their contributions. The analysis of such patterns confirms that some aspects of the author ranking are in accordance with the expected convention, such as the fact that the first and last authors are more likely to contribute more in a scientific work. Conversely, such analysis also revealed that authors in the intermediary positions of the rank contribute more in certain specific roles, such as the task of collecting data. This indicates that the an unbiased evaluation of researchers must take into account the distinct types of scientific contributions.

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