Patterns of authors contribution in scientific manuscripts

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Highlights：

• We investigated how regular are author contributions in scientific manuscripts.

• A metric to quantify the effective number of authors is proposed.

• Three patterns of contributions are described.

• A network framework to study authors contributions is proposed.

摘要

Highlights•We investigated how regular are author contributions in scientific manuscripts.•A metric to quantify the effective number of authors is proposed.•Three patterns of contributions are described.•A network framework to study authors contributions is proposed.

论文关键词：Authorship contributions,Science of science,Entropy,Text mining

论文评审过程：Received 1 October 2016, Revised 6 March 2017, Accepted 6 March 2017, Available online 31 March 2017, Version of Record 31 March 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.03.003