A simple, generalizable method for measuring individual research productivity and its use in the long-term analysis of departmental performance, including between-country comparisons

Table 2 Schemes for assigning credit to authors of multi-author papers

No. of authors	First author	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
(A) Monotonic scheme proposed by Howard et al.[6].
1	1.0000
2	0.6000	0.4000
3	0.4737	0.3158	0.2105
4	0.4154	0.2769	0.1846	0.1231
5	0.3839	0.2559	0.1706	0.1137	0.0758
(B) FLAE scheme proposed by Tscharntke et al.[8].
1	1.0000
2	0.66667	0.33333
3	0.54545	0.18182	0.27273
4	0.50000	0.12500	0.12500	0.25000
5	0.47619	0.09524	0.09524	0.09524	0.23810
(C) FLAE scheme proposed by Ellwein et al.[3].
1	1.0000
2	0.5556	0.4444
3	0.3846	0.3077	0.3077
4	0.3086	0.2469	0.1975	0.2469
5	0.2577	0.2062	0.1649	0.1649	0.2062
(D) FLAE scheme proposed in the present study. For more than two authors, the first author is assigned 50% of the credit, the last author 30%, and the also-rans have the remaining 20% divided between them.
1	1.0000
2	0.7000	0.3000
3	0.5000	0.2000	0.3000
4	0.5000	0.1000	0.1000	0.3000
5	0.5000	0.0667	0.0667	0.0667	0.3000

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