IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jamist/v52y2001i9p770-773.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship

Author

Listed:
  • Elisabeth Davenport
  • Blaise Cronin

Abstract

Multiple authorship is a topic of growing concern in a number of scientific domains. When, as is increasingly common, scholarly articles and clinical reports have scores or even hundreds of authors—what Cronin (in press) has termed “hyperauthorship”—the precise nature of each individual's contribution is often masked. A notation that describes collaborators' contributions and allows those contributions to be tracked in, and across, texts (and over time) offers a solution. Such a notation should be useful, easy to use, and acceptable to communities of scientists. Drawing on earlier work, we present a proposal for an XML‐like “contribution” mark‐up, and discuss the potential benefits and possible drawbacks.

Suggested Citation

  • Elisabeth Davenport & Blaise Cronin, 2001. "Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 52(9), pages 770-773.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:52:y:2001:i:9:p:770-773
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.1123
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/asi.1123?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Al Lily, Abdulrahman Essa, 2016. "Crowd-authoring: The art and politics of engaging 101 authors of educational technology," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 36(6), pages 1053-1061.
    2. Frandsen, Tove Faber & Nicolaisen, Jeppe, 2010. "What is in a name? Credit assignment practices in different disciplines," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 608-617.
    3. Levitt, Jonathan M. & Thelwall, Mike, 2013. "Alphabetization and the skewing of first authorship towards last names early in the alphabet," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 7(3), pages 575-582.
    4. Pär Sundling, 2023. "Author contributions and allocation of authorship credit: testing the validity of different counting methods in the field of chemical biology," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(5), pages 2737-2762, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:52:y:2001:i:9:p:770-773. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.asis.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.