Gerchak Yigal
Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel.
Entropy (Basel). 2020 Aug 24;22(9):927. doi: 10.3390/e22090927.
In attributing individual credit for co-authored academic publications, one issue is how to (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.
在为共同撰写的学术出版物确定个人贡献度时，一个问题是如何根据作者顺序（不平均地）分配贡献度。为已完成的共同事业分配贡献度一直是一项挑战。学术晋升委员会在试图推断候选人对其与他人共同撰写的文章的贡献时，经常会面临这样的任务。我们提出了一种在默认顺序为字母顺序的学科（如作者所在学科）中实现这一目标的方法。贡献度是在顺序约束下使香农熵最大化的值。
