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I am having some disagreement with my VP Academic. She claims that being one of three or four authors (not necessarily the first) in a published paper has the same value of being the only author.

Does anyone know of academic evaluation criteria for publications published or used by reputable institutions? Or, can anyone suggest other effective ways to prove her wrong?

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1) I publish in the field of statistical methods with data analysis included. My papers are being compared with papers in social sciences.

2) For value I mean time and effort put in writing the papers and getting them published.

3) I would like to find out if there exist some guidelines or criteria for evaluating publications, maybe considering the discipline.

Marco Stamazza
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    What is your academic discipline or area? – Yemon Choi Jul 09 '16 at 01:19
  • Statistical methodology and analysis – Marco Stamazza Jul 09 '16 at 01:39
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    Value to whom? Different fields view multiple authorship differently. In fields where single-author papers are the norm, having five coauthors dilutes your perceived contribution; in fields where 10-author papers are the norm, it does not. (See also: author ordering.) – JeffE Jul 09 '16 at 04:03
  • Thank you for your comment. I edited the question to make it clearer. Do you know how to substantiate what you say (even if it may be obvious to most of us)? – Marco Stamazza Jul 09 '16 at 04:40
  • Furthermore, you might be named as a "nerd" in single author ones!!!: http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/56106/does-one-really-have-to-consider-having-a-co-author-to-avoid-being-considered-as –  Jul 09 '16 at 06:31
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    For value I mean time and effort put in writing the papers and getting them published. --- That sounds like cost, not value. I assumed "value" meant something like the work's contribution to your reputation among your peers, reputation within your department, reputation among your supervisors, collaboration potential, hiring potential, promotion potential, funding potential, attractiveness to strong PhD students, commercialization opportunities, and the like. – JeffE Jul 09 '16 at 16:14
  • I'd have thought that it mainly depends on the study and is (other than deciding what to study and together with whom) no decision of the yours: if you do it single-handed, you'll have a one-author paper, if many people work together it'll be multiple authors. – cbeleites unhappy with SX Jul 09 '16 at 18:54
  • Ok, it seems that i started a sterile polemic. I thought it was clear from the subject that the value was towards academic evaluation. Maybe i should gave said cost. Maybe my VP is right. – Marco Stamazza Jul 10 '16 at 05:20

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