Allocating the Credit in Collaborative Research

In: PS: political science & politics, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 246-247

Abstract

For years journal articles from the natural sciences have been
characterized by multiple authors, reflecting the collaborative
nature of the research. The articles have also conformed to a
professional norm in giving credit to the authors and, at least
implicitly, indicating their relative contributions. Although such
collaborative research has grown significantly in political science,
the discipline is still wrestling with any standard to indicate who
gets credit and the nature of multiple authors' relative
contributions. This is an issue with which political scientists from
the most junior to the most senior continue to deal.