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SUBMITTER: Xu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4574108 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Jian J Ding Ying Y Malic Vincent V
PloS one 20150916 9
Transdisciplinary collaboration is the key for innovation. An evaluation mechanism is necessary to ensure that academic credit for this costly process can be allocated fairly among coauthors. This paper proposes a set of quantitative measures (e.g., t_credit and t_index) to reflect authors' transdisciplinary contributions to publications. These measures are based on paper-topic probability distributions and author-topic probability distributions. We conduct an empirical analysis of the informati ...[more]