[Esip-citationguidelines] Individual vs group authorship

[Robert Downs]

 Hi Matt,

I appreciate that you raised the issue and agree with the thoughtful
comments in favor of group authorship that were offered by Karen Stocks,
below.

At CIESIN, we often create or contribute to the creation of data sets where
institutional entities are listed as the authors. While there may be
arguments for or against such practices, one advantage in having an
institutional entity as an author is the existence of policies that can be
referenced when making decisions about the data. For example, when CIESIN
is the sole author of a data product, the data are assigned an open data
license, such as the CC BY license, as stated in the CIESIN Open Data
Policy, which is available at the
http://ciesin.columbia.edu/documents/CIESINDataPolicy.pdf URL.

Below, please find some examples of references to recently released SEDAC
data products that are authored or co-authored by CIESIN.

International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia
University. 2021. Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates, Version 2.01.
Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
https://doi.org/10.7927/0gdn-6y33.

Hauer, M., and Center for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN), Columbia University. 2021. Georeferenced U.S. County-Level
Population Projections, Total and by Sex, Race and Age, Based on the SSPs,
2020-2100. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
(SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/dv72-s254.

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
Columbia University. 2020. Food Insecurity Hotspots Data Set. Palisades,
NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
https://doi.org/10.7927/cx02-2587.

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
Columbia University. 2021. Annual PM2.5 Concentrations for Countries and
Urban Areas, 1998-2016. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and
Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/rja8-8h89.

Thanks,

Bob
Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and Development
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:13 PM Stocks, Karen via Esip-citationguidelines <
esip-citationguidelines at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
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> 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.
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> HTH,
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> -Karen
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> Karen Stocks, PhD  (she/her)
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> Director, Geological Data Center
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> Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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> +1 858-534-1898
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> kstocks at ucsd.edu
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> *From: *Esip-citationguidelines <
> esip-citationguidelines-bounces at lists.esipfed.org> on behalf of Matthew
> Mayernik via Esip-citationguidelines <
> esip-citationguidelines at lists.esipfed.org>
> *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
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> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks for any insight,
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> Matt
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