Credit and coauthorship (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Saturday, 21 July 2007

Credit and coauthorship

Via Jacob T. Levy, an article at Inside Higher Ed about a report by an APSA panel on coauthorship norms in political science (the original report is here). For those calculating their own Nolan scores at home, I’ve heard vague rumblings that a co-authored piece typically “counts” as 0.75 single-authored pieces.

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