A nonlinear collective credit allocation in scientific publications

Collaboration among researchers plays an important role in scientific discoveries, especially in multidisciplinary research. How to allocate credit reasonably to coauthors of a paper is a long-standing problem in the science of sciences. The collective credit allocation method (CCA method) proposed by Shen, H. W. and Barabasi, A. L. provides a novel view to solve this problem, which measures the coauthors’ contribution to a paper based on the...