International Workshop on Contributorship and Scholarly Attribution

Use the link to access more information about the workshop which took place on May 16, 2012. The workshop was hosted by the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. A brief overview of the conference is as follows: “This invitation-only workshop will bring together members of the academic, publishing, and funder communities interested in exploring alternative contributorship and attribution models. Bibliographic conventions for representation of authorship lag behind the semantic capabilities of the web and tend to obfuscate the contributions of those involved in collaborative research and writing endeavors. As a result, publication credit is often misunderstood, and often misapportioned by traditional impact measures. There is growing interest among researchers, funding agencies, academic institutions, editors, and publishers in increasing the transparency of research contributions, and in more granular tracking of attribution and associated credit. Many publishers now require contribution disclosures upon article submission - some in structured form, some in free-text form - at the same time that funders are developing more scientifically rigorous ways to track the outputs and impact of their research investments...”