There is an urgent need for quantitative analysis of co-authors’ contribution to scientific papers. Although many examples of author contribution indices have been proposed in the past, none has really been adopted by scientific journals.
Recently, we have implemented an authorship contribution index in our new journal Rethinking Ecology. To benchmark our index, we need your help.
We are conducting a study on co-authorship among ecologists. In this questionnaire, you will be asked to provide information about your recently published papers (2014- 2016). For each paper you will be asked to provide the number of authors and an estimate of your contribution. It may help to have your CV or list of publications at hand so you don't forget any papers. This questionnaire is completely anonymous and you will not be asked to name the papers or your co-authors. We only need to collect numbers.
Take the survey here: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3024711/New-Survey
