[Esip-citationguidelines] Individual vs group authorship

[Matthew Mayernik]

Hi all,
We're having some discussions at NCAR about the relative merits of listing
individual authors names vs a collective author name for a group. The ESIP
data citation recommendations V2 indicate that both are acceptable.  I
generally understand the rationale for both: individuals like to see their
name and can potentially get credit more easily if their individual name is
listed. On the other side, collective names bypass issues of "who is an
author", which as you all know are difficult and situational to resolve.

My question for all of you is: How common is it to use
collective/organizational names as authors in data citations, instead of
individual names?  Do you (or your organization) list collective names? If
so, is it your typical practice, or an exception?

Thanks for any insight,

Matt
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