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Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship

Davenport, Elisabeth; Cronin, Blaise

Authors

Elisabeth Davenport

Blaise Cronin



Abstract

Multiple authorship is a topic of growing concern in a number of scientific domains. When, as is increasingly common, scholarly articles and clinical reports have scores or even hundreds of authors - what Cronin (in press) has termed hyperauthorship - the precise nature of each individual's contribution is often masked. A notation that describes collaborators' contributions and allows those contributions to be tracked in, and across, texts (and over time) offers a solution. Such a notation should be useful, easy to use, and acceptable to communities of scientists. Drawing on earlier work, we present a proposal for an XML-like contribution mark-up, and discuss the potential benefits and possible drawbacks

Citation

Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2001). Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(9), 770-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2001
Deposit Date Jul 5, 2010
Journal Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Print ISSN 1532-2882
Electronic ISSN 1532-2890
Publisher Association for Information Science and Technology
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 52
Issue 9
Pages 770-773
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123
Keywords notation, joint authorship, collaboration,
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3279
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123