Sentence examples for secondary authors from inspiring English sources
The ensuing inflationary and equalizing biases distort derived bibliometric measures of merit by systematically benefiting secondary authors at the expense of primary authors.
Subsequent authors are initially classified as secondary authors but lose the initial benefit of fractional counting when the number of coauthors increases, and become primary authors when they no longer benefit from equalizing bias.
In contrast, biased counting systematically benefits secondary authors at the expense of the primary authors who, in the absence of byline information to the contrary, presumably earned their authorship rank by contributing more.
The ensuing inflationary and equalizing biases have the capacity to distort bibliometric indices, confound research evaluation [cf. 3], [4] [6], and systematically benefit secondary authors at the expense of primary authors.
But US scientists find a more dramatic increase in citation rates when they are corresponding authors and the UK scientists had the highest rate for articles as secondary authors.
We classified the reports by authorship: eyewitness, expedition members or employees who were not eyewitnesses, or secondary (authors not part of the expedition).
The collective expectations of the field, as interpreted by the MS thesis committee, is that the MS thesis should be publishable as independent research or should be a significant secondary author contribution to a publication with another researcher as first author.
MSW was the secondary author and undertook all analyses.
The main author has conducted the study, and secondary author has contributed to the data analysis and review of the literature.
GT was a secondary author, was instrumental in study design and planning of methodologies and undertook analyses related to model calibration.
Do you have four first-author publications in Science (As if!), a stack of secondary author papers, and 15 poster presentations at national conferences--but only one job working at the Circle K while an undergrad on summer break?
