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Authorship Determination Scorecard

This document is a scorecard to help researchers determine authorship on a project. It lists various research activities and assigns point values to each. Contributors collaborate to assign each other points for the activities they took part in. Earning any points on the scorecard warrants authorship. When contributors have equal scores, a tiebreaker scorecard is used. The scorecard should be periodically revised as contributor responsibilities change. It aims to help decide authorship order in a fair manner.

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Authorship Determination Scorecard

This document is a scorecard to help researchers determine authorship on a project. It lists various research activities and assigns point values to each. Contributors collaborate to assign each other points for the activities they took part in. Earning any points on the scorecard warrants authorship. When contributors have equal scores, a tiebreaker scorecard is used. The scorecard should be periodically revised as contributor responsibilities change. It aims to help decide authorship order in a fair manner.

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Project Title/Description: ________________________________________________________________

Authorship Determination Scorecard

Instructions. This checklist is designed to aid contributors in deciding if they deserve authorship on the
research project and to aid authorship-worthy contributors in determining the order of authorship. This
checklist should include all contributors of the research project. Contributors have to complete this
checklist collaboratively as the project progresses and it should be completed in such a way that all
authors’ scores equal the total points assigned to each item. For example, for ‘Conceptualizing a
research idea,’ the scores of all contributors should sum to a total of 90 points. Please note that earning
any points on this checklist will warrant authorship. When two or more contributors receive an equal
score, please use ‘Authorship Tie-breaker Scorecard.’ This scorecard should be used and revised
periodically based on changes in the responsibilities of concerned contributors.

Contributor Score
Total Initials
Activity Category Points ABC ABC ABC ABC ABC
Conceptualizing a research idea 90
Refining/ crystalizing a research idea 60
Literature search: Summarizing literary pieces (e.g.,
articles, book chapters, etc.) 20
Creating a research design (e.g., counterbalancing,
randomization to conditions, survey design etc.) 80
Selecting an Instrument/ a measure: Instrument
construction 30
Selection of statistical tests/analyses 40
Performing statistical analyses and computations
(including computer work) 40
Interpretation of statistical analyses 80
Manuscript
Writing an introduction section 90
Writing a methods section 80
Writing results section 80
Writing discussion section 100
Writing conclusive summary 60
Writing limitations of the study 60
Writing future directions of the study 60
Managing Submission Process
Responding to reviewers’ feedback 10
Making changes based on reviewer feedback 60
Total
Score
NOTE: This table is adapted from that found at http://www.apa.org/science/leadership/students/authorship-determination.pdf
which was developed based on
Winston, Jr., R. B. (1985). A suggested procedure for determining order of authorship in research publications. Journal of
Counseling and Development, 63, 515-518.
Activity categories and weights developed in 2014 by Bharati Belwalkar, Steven Toaddy, and the other students and faculty of
the Industrial and Organizational Psychology PhD Program at Louisiana Tech University.

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