Original dataset for "A validation of co-authorship credit models with empirical data from the contributions of PhD candidates"

Publication reference:
Donner, P. (2020). A validation of co-authorship credit models with empirical data from the contributions of PhD candidates. Quantitative Science Studies, v. 1, i. 2, p. 551-564. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00048.

The file contains one row per authorship contribution statement. Rows of publications and theses are grouped.

Description of columns:

dissertation_id - an integer identifying each dissertation thesis

university - university at which the dissertation thesis was written and PhD degree conferred

year - publication year of the dissertation thesis

author - dissertation thesis author name

title - dissertation thesis title

subject - the field of research

publication_id - an integer identifying each publication; publication associated with more than one thesis have the same id across theses

reference - bibliographic reference for the publication associated with the thesis

author_count - number of authors of the publication

author_position - position in the author byline of the credited author

credit - claimed credit of the author in percent

corresponding_author - flag for whether the publication author of this row is a orresponding author