Comparative Analysis of Korean Universities’ Co-author Credit Allocation Standards on Journal Publications

& Yang,, K. (2015). Comparative Analysis of Korean Universities’ Co-author Credit Allocation Standards on Journal Publications. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 46(4), 191-205, https://doi.org/10.16981/kliss.46.4.201512.191

copy

Abstract

As the first step in developing the optimal co-authorship allocation method, this study investigated the co-authorship allocation standards of Korean Universities on journal publications. The study compared the standards of 27 Korean universities with Library and Information Science (LIS) departments, and analyzed author rankings generated by applying inflated, fractional, harmonic, and university standard method of co-authorship allocation to 189 Korean LIS faculty publications from 2001 to 2014. The university standards most similar to the standard co-authorship allocation method in bibliometrics(i.e. Vinkler) were those whose co-author credits summed up to 1. However, the university standards differed from Vinkler’s in allocating author credits based on primary and secondary author classification instead of allocation based on author ranks. The statistical analysis of author rankings showed that the harmonic method was most similar to the university standards. However, the correlation between the university standards whose co-author credits summed up to greater than 1 and harmonic method was lower. The study results also suggested that middle-level authors are most sensitive to co-authorship allocation methods. However, even the most generous university standards of co-authorship allocation still penalizes collaborative research by reducing each co-authors credit below those of single authors. Follow-up studies will be needed to investigate the optimal method of co-authorship credit allocation.

keywords: 공동저자 기여도, 계량서지학, 연구업적평가, Co-authorship credit allocation, Bibliometrics, Research performance evaluation

Reference

김두범. 1996. 교수업적평가제의 분석적 접근. 한국여성교양학회지 , 3: 13-29.

이혜경, 양기덕. 2015. 국내대학의 연구업적평가기준 비교 분석. 한국정보관리학회 학술대회 논문집 , 17-22.

Hagen, N. T. 2008. “Harmonic allocation of authorship credit: Source-level correction of bibliometric bias assures accurate publication and citation analysis.” PLoS One, 3(12): e4021.

Hagen, N. T. 2010. “Harmonic publication and citation counting: sharing authorship credit equitably - not equally, geometrically or arithmetically.” Scientometrics, 84: 785-793.

Lee J. Y. and Chung E. 2014. “A Comparative Analysis on Multiple Authorship Counting for Author Co-citation Analysis.” 정보관리학회지 , 31(2): 57-77.

Lee, J. and Yang K. 2015. “Co-authorship Credit Allocation Methods in the Assessment of Citation Impact of Chemistry Faculty.” 정보관리학회지 , 49(3): 273-289.

Sekercioglu, C. H. 2008. “Quantifying coauthor contributions.” Science, 322(5900):371-375.

Vinkler, P. 1993. “Research contribution, authorship and team cooperativeness.”Scientometrics, 26(1):213-230.

Vinkler, P. 2000. “Evaluation of the publication activity of research teams by means of scientometric indicators.” Current Science, 79(5): 602-612.

10.

Yang K. and Lee, J. 2013. “Bibliometric Approach to Research Assessment: Publication Count, Citation Count, & Author Rank.” Journal of information science theory and practice, 1(1): 27-41.

11.

Zhang, C. T. 2009. “A proposal for calculating weighted citations based on author rank.”Embo Reports, 10(5): 416-417.

바로가기메뉴

Article Contents

Vol.46 No.4

Comparative Analysis of Korean Universities’ Co-author Credit Allocation Standards on Journal Publications

Abstract

Reference

Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society