caa a22 4500 445349905 CHVBK 20180317142840.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0451-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0451-5 Tol Richard Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland aut Credit where credit's due: accounting for co-authorship in citation counts [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Tol] I propose a new method (Pareto weights) to objectively attribute citations to co-authors. Previous methods either profess ignorance about the seniority of co-authors (egalitarian weights) or are based in an ad hoc way on the order of authors (rank weights). Pareto weights are based on the respective citation records of the co-authors. Pareto weights are proportional to the probability of observing the number of citations obtained. Assuming a Pareto distribution, such weights can be computed with a simple, closed-form equation but require a few iterations and data on a scholar, her co-authors, and her co-authors' co-authors. The use of Pareto weights is illustrated with a group of prominent economists. In this case, Pareto weights are very different from rank weights. Pareto weights are more similar to egalitarian weights but can deviate up to a quarter in either direction (for reasons that are intuitive). The Author(s), 2011 Citations nationallicence Co-authors nationallicence Pareto distribution nationallicence Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 89/1(2011-10-01), 291-299 0138-9130 89:1<291 2011 89 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0451-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0451-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tol Richard Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 89/1(2011-10-01), 291-299 0138-9130 89:1<291 2011 89 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer