Table 2.
Schemes for assigning credit to authors of multi-author papers
| No. of authors | First author | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (A) Monotonic scheme proposed by Howard et al.[6]. | |||||
| 1 |
1.0000 |
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
0.6000 |
0.4000 |
|
|
|
| 3 |
0.4737 |
0.3158 |
0.2105 |
|
|
| 4 |
0.4154 |
0.2769 |
0.1846 |
0.1231 |
|
| 5 |
0.3839 |
0.2559 |
0.1706 |
0.1137 |
0.0758 |
| (B) FLAE scheme proposed by Tscharntke et al.[8]. | |||||
| 1 |
1.0000 |
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
0.66667 |
0.33333 |
|
|
|
| 3 |
0.54545 |
0.18182 |
0.27273 |
|
|
| 4 |
0.50000 |
0.12500 |
0.12500 |
0.25000 |
|
| 5 |
0.47619 |
0.09524 |
0.09524 |
0.09524 |
0.23810 |
| (C) FLAE scheme proposed by Ellwein et al.[3]. | |||||
| 1 |
1.0000 |
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
0.5556 |
0.4444 |
|
|
|
| 3 |
0.3846 |
0.3077 |
0.3077 |
|
|
| 4 |
0.3086 |
0.2469 |
0.1975 |
0.2469 |
|
| 5 |
0.2577 |
0.2062 |
0.1649 |
0.1649 |
0.2062 |
| (D) FLAE scheme proposed in the present study. For more than two authors, the first author is assigned 50% of the credit, the last author 30%, and the also-rans have the remaining 20% divided between them. | |||||
| 1 |
1.0000 |
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
0.7000 |
0.3000 |
|
|
|
| 3 |
0.5000 |
0.2000 |
0.3000 |
|
|
| 4 |
0.5000 |
0.1000 |
0.1000 |
0.3000 |
|
| 5 | 0.5000 | 0.0667 | 0.0667 | 0.0667 | 0.3000 |