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A measure of authorship by publications
Author(s) -
Mukherjee Conan,
Basu Ranojoy,
Alam Aftab
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.3104
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , task (project management) , index (typography) , measure (data warehouse) , identity (music) , joint (building) , independence (probability theory) , sociology , computer science , positive economics , epistemology , economics , mathematics , management , statistics , data mining , philosophy , artificial intelligence , aesthetics , world wide web , architectural engineering , engineering
Measuring publication success of a researcher is a complicated task as publications are often co‐authored by multiple authors, and so, it requires comparison of solo publications with joint publications. In this paper, like Price (1981), we argue for an egalitarian perspective in accomplishing this task. More specifically, we justify the need for an ethical perspective in quantifying academic author by identifying certain ethical difficulties of some popular contemporary indices used for this purpose. And then we show that for any given dataset of research papers, the unique method satisfying the ethical notions of identity independence and performance invariance must be the egaliatarian E ‐index proposed by Bose, Pal, and Sappington (2010) and Price (1981). In our setting, this egalitarian method divides authorship of joint projects equally among authors and sums across all publications of each author.