Sequence-determines-credit approach (SDC)
Definition
An authorship system that assigns authorship order based on the contribution of each author. The names of the authors are listed according to their contribution in descending order with the most contributing author first and the least contributing author last.
References:
- Schmidt, R. H. (1987). A worksheet for authorship of scientific articles. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 68, 8–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20166549
- Tscharntke, T., Hochberg, M. E., Rand, T. A., Resh, V. H., & Krauss, J. (2007). Author sequence and credit for contributions in multiauthored publications. PLoS Biology, 5(1), e18. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050018
Originally drafted by: Myriam A. Baum
Reviewed by: Sam Parsons, Charlotte R. Pennington
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