[Esip-citationguidelines] Individual vs group authorship

Tue Apr 27 15:01:00 EDT 2021

Thanks all for this input, this is very helpful!

Matt

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:59 PM Ruth Duerr via Esip-citationguidelines <
esip-citationguidelines at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> Back in the NSIDC days; it truly depended on the dataset.  If a set of
> people were funded by an agency to create a product and to archive it at
> NSIDC; they were the authors and NSIDC was the publisher.  However if a
> product was sponsored/developed by a group (e.g. Callista Elders Council);
> the group name is used.
>
> Ruth
>
> On Apr 26, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Robert Downs via Esip-citationguidelines <
> esip-citationguidelines at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
> Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
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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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>>
>> Karen Stocks, PhD  (she/her)
>>
>> Director, Geological Data Center
>>
>> Scripps Institution of Oceanography
>>
>> +1 858-534-1898
>>
>> kstocks at ucsd.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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