[Esip-citationguidelines] Individual vs group authorship

[Stocks, Karen]

Hi Matt,

Group authorship is something I have used occasionally. It is useful not just when the staff list on a project gets so large as to be unwieldy, but also when you want it to be clear that the published product (maybe describing a standard or a practice) was put out and thus endorsed by the program and not just by a set of individuals.

HTH,

-Karen


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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Reply-To: Matthew Mayernik <mayernik at ucar.edu>
Date: Monday, April 26, 2021 at 10:40 AM
To: Esip-citationguidelines <esip-citationguidelines at lists.esipfed.org>
Subject: [Esip-citationguidelines] Individual vs group authorship

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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