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ArticleMethods and protocols2021

Authorship Weightage Algorithm for Academic Publications: A New Calculation and ACES Webserver for Determining Expertise.

Wei-Ling Wu, Owen Tan, Kwok-Fong Chan, Nicole Bernadette Ong, David Gunasegaran, Samuel Ken-En Gan

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Article in Methods and protocols, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Wei-Ling WuAntibody & Product Development Lab, EDDC-BII, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.
Owen TanAntibody & Product Development Lab, EDDC-BII, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.
Kwok-Fong ChanAntibody & Product Development Lab, EDDC-BII, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.
Nicole Bernadette OngAntibody & Product Development Lab, EDDC-BII, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.
David GunasegaranAntibody & Product Development Lab, EDDC-BII, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.
Samuel Ken-En GanAntibody & Product Development Lab, EDDC-BII, A*STAR, Singapore 138672, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-9936-5090

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A*STAR Office of Grants Administration N.A.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the public availability, finding experts in any field when relying on academic publications can be challenging, especially with the use of jargons. Even after overcoming these issues, the discernment of expertise by authorship positions is often also absent in the many publication-based search platforms. Given that it is common in many academic fields for the research group lead or lab head to take the position of the last author, some of the existing authorship scoring systems that assign a decreasing weightage from the first author would not reflect the last author correctly. To address these problems, we incorporated natural language processing (Common Crawl using fastText) to retrieve related keywords when using jargons as well as a modified authorship positional scoring that allows the assignment of greater weightage to the last author. The resulting output is a ranked scoring system of researchers upon every search that we implemented as a webserver for internal use called the APD lab Capability & Expertise Search (ACES).

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PMID34207547
PMCPMC8293319

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