Contributory inequality alters assessment of academic output gap between comparable countries

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Highlights：

• Reduced contributory inequality was positively associated with increased publication output.

• The elite segment of the publication gap between Denmark and Norway narrowed from 2012 to 2013.

• Metrics confounded by EqB (equalizing bias) purported that the elite segment of the publication gap was widening.

摘要

Highlights•Reduced contributory inequality was positively associated with increased publication output.•The elite segment of the publication gap between Denmark and Norway narrowed from 2012 to 2013.•Metrics confounded by EqB (equalizing bias) purported that the elite segment of the publication gap was widening.

论文关键词：Coauthor credit,Harmonic formula,Bibliometric bias,Publication metrics,Inequality

论文评审过程：Received 21 February 2015, Revised 29 May 2015, Accepted 1 June 2015, Available online 18 July 2015, Version of Record 18 July 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.06.002