Credit Where Credit is Due? The Impact of Project Contributions and Social Factors on Authorship and Inventorship

Published: Jan 1, 2011
Abstract
Using unique survey data from over 2,000 life scientists, we examine the extent to which different types of substantive project contributions as well as social factors predict whether a scientist is named as author on a paper and inventor on a patent resulting from the same project. We find that the predictors of authorship differ from those of inventorship. A wider range of project contributions may result in authorship, and social factors...
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Credit Where Credit is Due? The Impact of Project Contributions and Social Factors on Authorship and Inventorship
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Jan 1, 2011
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