Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Who dunnit?: metatags and hyperauthorship
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Gaffers, Gofers, and Grips: Role-Based Coordination in Temporary Organizations
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Frequency and structure of long distance scholarly collaborations in a physics community
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Expressing territoriality in collaborative activity
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Journal of Information Science
Edits & credits: exploring integration and attribution in online creative collaboration
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The value of data: considering the context of production in data economies
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Participation in an online mathematics community: differentiating motivations to add
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A bibliometric chronicling of library and information science's first hundred years
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Meanings and boundaries of scientific software sharing
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Why CSCW needs science policy (and vice versa)
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Collaborative problem solving: a study of MathOverflow
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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In this article, I draw on interview data gathered in the High Energy Physics (HEP) community to address recent problems stemming from collaborative research activity that stretches the boundaries of the traditional scientific authorship model. While authorship historically has been attributed to individuals and small groups, thereby making it relatively easy to tell who made major contributions to the work, recent collaborations have involved hundreds or thousands of individuals. Printing all of these names in the author list on articles can mean difficulties in discerning the nature or extent of individual contributions, which has significant implications for hiring and promotion procedures. This also can make collaborative research less attractive to scientists at the outset of a project. I discuss the issues that physicists are considering as they grapple with what it means to be “an author,” in addition to suggesting that future work in this area draw on the emerging economics literature on “mechanism design” in considering how credit can be attributed in ways that both ensure proper attribution and induce scientists to put forth their best effort. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.