Collaborative Authorship

This note is about authorship principles in collaborative writing and practice, particularly in the context of academic and research publications or non-traditional reserach outputs.

Tennant, Jonathan, Natalia Bielczyk, Bastian Tzovaras, Paola Masuzzo, and Tobias Steiner. “Introducing Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs).” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 4, no. 1 (2020): 1–18. https://doi.org/10/gg89rt.

Frassl, Marieke A., David P. Hamilton, Blaize A. Denfeld, Elvira De Eyto, Stephanie E. Hampton, Philipp S. Keller, Sapna Sharma, et al. “Ten Simple Rules for Collaboratively Writing a Multi-Authored Paper.” Edited by Fran Lewitter. PLOS Computational Biology 14, no. 11 (2018): e1006508. https://doi.org/10/gfj8wf.

Collaborative writing strategies:

  • one-for-all writing
  • each-in-sequence writing
  • all-in-parallel writing
  • all-in-reaction writing
  • multi-mode writing

Lingard, Lorelei. “Collaborative Writing: Strategies and Activities for Writing Productively Together.” Perspectives on Medical Education 10, no. 3 (2021): 163–66. https://doi.org/10/gjwhv8.

Nogrady, Bianca. “Hyperauthorship: The Publishing Challenges for ‘Big Team’ Science.” Nature 615, no. 7950 (2023): 175–77. https://doi.org/10/g9mnf9.

Borer, Elizabeth T., Andrew S. MacDougall, Carly J. Stevens, Lauren L. Sullivan, Peter A. Wilfahrt, and Eric W. Seabloom. “Writing a Massively Multi-Authored Paper: Overcoming Barriers to Meaningful Authorship for All.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14, no. 6 (2023): 1432–42. https://doi.org/10/gr6dw3.


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