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Agree with this but it does not apply to all fields. Economists have a norm of alphabetizing author names unless the contributions were very unevenly distribute
by a123b456c 2y ago
Agree with this but it does not apply to all fields. Economists have a norm of alphabetizing author names unless the contributions were very unevenly distributed. That way authors can avoid squabbling over contributions.
- Loughla 2y agoThat's how education is too. That's why I asked; it wasn't in alphabetical order.
- j_bum 2y agoInteresting! I always have wondered with these approaches, is there anything in the paper that indicates who was the “lead” author? Also, to me, the alphabetical order approach reinforces issues with lower rank last names having various advantages. E.g, lower rank alphabetical names doing better in school [0]. Do you have any counterpoint to this that I’m missing? [0] https://news.umich.edu/keeping-up-with-the-joneses-when-it-comes-to-getting-better-grades-its-good-to-be-the-andersons/ https://news.umich.edu/keeping-up-with-the-joneses-when-it-c...