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This paper presents a validation of credit allocation methods using a new data set of author-provided percentage contribution figures obtained from the coauthored publications in cumulative PhD theses by authors from three countries that contain contribution statements. The comparison of allocation schemes shows that harmonic counting performs best and arithmetic and geometric counting also perform well, while fractional counting and first author counting perform relatively poorly.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1162\/qss_a_00048","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,14]],"date-time":"2020-06-14T18:28:26Z","timestamp":1592159306000},"page":"551-564","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/mitpressjournals.corrections.policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A validation of coauthorship credit models with empirical data from the contributions of PhD candidates"],"prefix":"10.1162","volume":"1","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5737-8483","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paul","family":"Donner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Department 2, Research System and Science Dynamics, Sch\u00fctzenstra\u00dfe 6a, 10117 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"281","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025073014023860000_bib1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bhandari,  M., Einhorn,  T. 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