More on Aauthors and Aalphabetical placement
Posted: July 26, 2014 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, Universities | Tags: authorship, research communication, universities | Leave a comment »In an earlier post today, I discussed some of the economic implications of having a last name beginning early in the alphabet in disciplines that traditionally order the authors on multi-author papers alphabetically.
I’ve since looked up the original paper (Einav, Liran, and Leeat Yariv. 2006. “What’s in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (1): 175–88). This is more startling than I thought.
First of all, from the authors’ own description:
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Posted: July 13, 2014 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: authorship, credit, research communication, transparency | Leave a comment »I think it is time to get rid of authorship altogether, at least in research communication.
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The bird in hand: Humanities research in the age of open data (Digital Science Report)
Posted: October 24, 2016 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: humanities, open data, Research, research communication | Leave a comment »Originally published as Daniel Paul O’Donnell. 2016. “The Bird in Hand: Humanities Research in the Age of Open Data.” In The State of Open Data: A Selection of Analyses and Articles about Open Data, Edited by Figshare, 34–35. Digital Science Report. London: Digital Science.
Traditionally, humanities scholars have resisted describing their raw material as
“data” 10.
Instead, they speak of “sources” and “readings. Read the rest of this entry »