Who's on first? Listing authors by relative contribution trumps the alphabet

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-47

  Lake, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952587388     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: 15375935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104909651099080X     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Diamond, A.M., Jr. 1985. "The Money Value of Citations to Single-Authored and Multiple-Authored Articles." Scientometrics 8: 315-320
2. Efthyvoulou, Georgios. 2008. "Alphabet Economics: The Link Between Names and Reputation." Journal of Socio-Economics 37 (3): 1266-1285
3. Einav, Liran, and Leeat Yariv. 2006. "What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success." Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (1): 175-188
4. Engers, M., J.S. Gans, S. Grant, and S.P. King. 1999. "First-Author Conditions." Journal of Political Economy 107: 859-883
5. Kwok, L.S. 2005. "The White Bull Effect: Abusive Coauthorship and Publication Parasitism." Journal of Medical Ethics 31: 554-556
6. Moore,W.J., R.J. Newman, and G.K. Turnbull. 2001. "Reputational Capital and Academic Pay." Economic Inquiry 39: 663-671
7. Nudelman, A.E., and C.E. Landers. 1972. "The Failure of 100 Divided by 3 to Equal 33-1/3." The American Sociologist 7.
8. Sigelman, Lee. 2009. "Are Two (or Three or Four . . . or Nine) Heads Better than One? Collaboration, Multidisciplinarity, and Publishability." PS: Political Science and Politics 42 (3): 507-512
9. Tregenza, Tom. 1997. "Darwin a Better Name thanWallace?" Nature 385: 480.
10. Van Praag, C.M., and B.M.S. Van Praag. 2003. "First-Author Determinants and the Benefits of Being Professor A (and not Z): An Empirical Analysis." Economica 75: 782-796