January 12, 2007PLoS Biology590 citationsOpen Access
Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications
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Abstract
A transparent, simple, and straightforward approach that is free from any arbitrary rank valuation is required to estimate the credit associated with the sequence of authors' names on multiauthored papers.
Cite This Study
Tscharntke et al. (2007) studied this question.