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Do Korean Universities Consider Alphabetical Authorship in Economics in Faculty Research Evaluation?

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2017, 34(2), pp.7~26
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2017.34.2.007
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : May 17, 2017
  • Accepted : June 8, 2017
  • Published : June 30, 2017

Jongwook Lee 1 SUH HYUNDUK 2

1공주대학교
2인하대학교

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ABSTRACT

There has been growing interest in the methods for measuring the credits of individual authors in multi-authored research papers in response to the increase of research collaboration. Having a good understanding for academic norms of individual discipline is essential to measure author credit effectively. However, many Korean universities do not consider different norms for determining the order of authors across disciplines. Rather, they tend to use a standardized method to assess the credits of authors in multi-authored papers. Therefore, this study presented some problems of applying a standardized method to measure author credits in multi-authored papers in economics. The findings of this study confirmed the frequent use of alphabetical author order in economics papers; however, many university guidelines for research evaluation do not take account the alphabetical authorship in measuring the credits of authors. The authors suggest the needs for (1) establishment of a clear definition for primary authors, (2) flexibility in assessment methods for author credit, and (3) empirical research on author credit.

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