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1Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel.
Abstract:
In attributing individual credit for co-authored academic publications, one issue is how to apportion (unequal) credit, based on the order of authorship. Apportioning credit for completed joint undertakings has always been a challenge. Academic promotion committees are faced with such tasks regularly, when trying to infer a candidate's contribution to an article they coauthored with others. We propose a method for achieving this goal in disciplines (such as the author's) where the default order is alphabetical. The credits are those maximizing Shannon entropy subject to order constraints.
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