What is in a name? Credit assignment practices in different disciplines |
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| Authors: | Tove Faber Frandsen Jeppe Nicolaisen |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark;2. Royal School of Library and Information Science, Birketinget 6, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark;1. Institute for Education and Information Sciences, IBW, University of Antwerp, Venusstraat 35, Antwerp B-2000, Belgium;2. KU Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Celestijnenlaan 200B, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium;3. Library of Tongji University, Tongji University, Siping Street 1239, Shanghai 200092, China;4. SPRU, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9SL, UK;5. Institute for Education and Information Sciences, IBW, University of Antwerp, Venusstraat 35, Antwerp B-2000, Belgium;1. Department of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China;2. Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, PR China;3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA;4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA;1. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington, 1320 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA;2. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The paper reviews the literature on disciplinary credit assignment practices, and presents the results of a longitudinal study of credit assignment practices in the fields of economics, high energy physics, and information science. The practice of alphabetization of authorship is demonstrated to vary significantly between the fields. A slight increase is found to have taken place in economics during the last 30 years (1978–2007). A substantial decrease is found to have taken place in information science during the same period. High energy physics is found to be characterised by a high and stable share of alphabetized multi-authorships during the investigated period (1990–2007). It is important to be aware of such disciplinary differences when conducting bibliometric analyses. |
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