Citation-Based Author Contribution Measure for Byline-Independency

Abstract

Quantifying the different contributions of co-authors is a challenging task, and existing methods often rely on the assumption that orders of author bylines reflect the contribution of co-authors. Byline-based approaches, however, render them incompatible to alphabetically-ordered bylines where authors are ordered by names, not by their contributions. The authors proposed a citation-based author contribution measure citeRatio independent of byline orders while capturing the importance of the first and last authors.