Does the Winner Take it All? Increasing Inequality in Scientific Authorship

Pages: 1 - 14
Published: Dec 12, 2018
Abstract
Scientific authorship has become a hot topic in the social sciences. We present three avenues addressing this topic from different perspectives to illustrate in which direction research on inequalities in the context of scientific authorship and academic publications may move. We draw on data from the Web of Science focusing on the field of sociology. We demonstrate that (i) the alphabetical order of co‐authors' names sends out an ambiguous...
Paper Details
Title
Does the Winner Take it All? Increasing Inequality in Scientific Authorship
Published Date
Dec 12, 2018
Pages
1 - 14
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