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Abstract
The phenomenon of co-corresponding authorship is becoming more and more common. To understand the practice of authorship credit sharing among multiple corresponding authors, we comprehensively analyzed the characteristics of the phenomenon of co-corresponding authorships from the perspectives of countries, disciplines, journals, and articles. This researcher was based on a dataset of nearly 8 million articles indexed in the Web of Science, which provides systematic, cross-disciplinary, and large-scale evidence for understanding the phenomenon of co-corresponding authorship for the first time. Our findings reveal that higher proportions of co-corresponding authorship exist in Asian countries, especially in China. From the perspective of disciplines, there is a relatively higher proportion of co-corresponding authorship in the fields of engineering and medicine, while a lower proportion exists in the humanities, social sciences, and computer science fields. From the perspective of journals, high-quality journals usually have higher proportions of co-corresponding authorship. At the level of the article, our findings proved that, compared to articles with a single corresponding author, articles with multiple corresponding authors have a significant citation advantage.
共同对应作者的现象越来越普遍。为了解多通讯作者署名信用共享的实践情况,我们从国家、学科、期刊、文章等角度综合分析了共同通讯作者现象的特征。本研究基于Web of Science收录的近800万篇文章的数据集,首次为理解共同对应作者现象提供了系统的、跨学科的、大规模的证据。我们的研究结果表明,在亚洲国家,特别是中国,共同对应作者的比例更高。从学科的角度来看,工程和医学领域的共同对应作者比例较高,而人文、社会科学和计算机科学领域的共同对应作者比例较低。从期刊角度看,高质量期刊的共同对应作者比例通常较高。在文章层面,我们的研究结果证明,与单一通讯作者的文章相比,拥有多个通讯作者的文章具有显著的被引优势。
期刊介绍:
The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is a leading international forum for peer-reviewed research in information science. For more than half a century, JASIST has provided intellectual leadership by publishing original research that focuses on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes.
The Journal welcomes rigorous work of an empirical, experimental, ethnographic, conceptual, historical, socio-technical, policy-analytic, or critical-theoretical nature. JASIST also commissions in-depth review articles (“Advances in Information Science”) and reviews of print and other media.