measuring affiliation

From: Leslie Carr <lac_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:51:31 +0100

On 11 Aug 2006, at 12:09, Wichor Bramer wrote:

> I'm not too keen to include these in our repository. what's your
> opinion on
> this? Should only articles where al least the first author is
> affiliated to
> the institution be entered. Where can we draw a line (if we can).
> How much
> author affiliation does one need?

That's a matter of policy, but it would seem to be a strange and
arbitrary policy that required a particular percentage of authorship
to be allowed in.

Many papers (especially in some disciplines) have large author lists:
you could inadvertently find yourself discriminating against some
departments in your institution.
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Les Carr
Received on Fri Aug 11 2006 - 15:55:14 BST

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