Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications

Authors: Teja Tscharntke, Michael Hochberg, Tatyana A. Rand, Vincent H. Resh, Jochen Krauß - PLoS Biology 2007 cited by 580

A transparent, simple, and straightforward approach that is free from any arbitrary rank valuation is required to estimate the credit associated with the sequence of authors' names on multiauthored papers.