Displaying equally contributing authors (OJS 3.3)

lsteele · February 9, 2022, 2:35pm

Hi,
I would like to display in the author list two equally contributing authors. They are identified with a * in the author list, but I have not found a way to display correctly in the author affiliations.
Has anyone had successful wayarounds?
thanks,
Lucia

rcgillis · February 9, 2022, 11:10pm

Hi @lsteele,

Not a workaround, and not exactly the same as you are noting, there is a desire to be able to address this as noted in this issue:

github.com/pkp/pkp-lib

Different Contributor roles like translators are not taken into account when displaying and exporting metadata

opened 12:39PM - 15 Apr 20 UTC

ajnyga

OJS/OMP/OPS should present different contributor roles more clearly. At the mome…nt there is a theoretical ability to create different kinds of contributor roles, but in reality they are all treated as "authors". When you add for example a translator and photographer contributors to an article, these contributors are shown the same way as the author in OJS templates and in the metadata exports. ### Current approach to distinguish roles: UserGroups have a `showTitle` attribute. When it is selected, the name of the role should be visible behind the contributors name. This is used in the `getAuthorString` function. https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/blob/master/classes/publication/PKPPublication.inc.php#L130 ### Shortcomings of the current approach: Almost the only place where `getAuthorString` is used is the TOC. This means that for example in the Landing Page and the Crossref Metadata exports **all contributors are presented as regular authors**. This is especially bad when data is exported. With citation formats the Translator always has a fixed position in the citation and Google Scholar specifically mentions that _only_ actual authors should be listed in the tags https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#indexing which is not happening now. ### New approach: This is open to discussion, but IMO we need a UserGroup setting for defining which of the existing userGroups are actual **Author** roles (usually just one) and which are auxiliary roles. And for some Auxiliary roles, like **Translator**, we need to have specific ways of handling the contributors assigned to that role/userGroup ie. showing/listing them in the correct place and with the correct metadata attributes. **So in short, we need the ability to apply a taxonomy to the UserGroups and we need to code some functionalities to some of the roles listed in the taxonomy.** The setting could be for example a pull down / radio group with labels like "Treat the Contributors in this group as Authors", "Treat the Contributors in this group as Translators" etc. For visual presentation in the TOC and Landing page, the showTitle attribute is probably a good approach, but it needs to be taken into account also in getFullName https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/blob/master/classes/submission/PKPAuthor.inc.php#L65. ### Places where the contributor role needs to be considered: - If enabled in userGroup settings, show the contributor name and the contributor role in parenthesis: TOC, Landing page, Contributors grid - Follow the citation standard: citationStyleLanguage plugin - Follow the used metadata schema: OAI-PMH, DOAJ export, Crossref export, ORCID, Google Scholar, DC, etc. ### Taxonomy: Using the CASRAI CRediT standard is suggested here: https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/857 However, I do not see how it would help a lot with this problem. The important thing here is that we need to tie different actions to specific contributor roles. For this we need a more simple taxonomy with the most usual roles. Different citation standards usually distinquish at least between the author, editor and translator. DC has a huge list of possible roles: http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/loc.terms/relators/dc-contributor.html Crossref has these contributor_role values: author, editor, chair, reviewer, review-assistant, stats-reviewer, reviewer-external, reader, translator ORCID has these contributor_role values: author, assignee, editor, chair-or-translator, co-investigator, co-inventor, graduate-student, other-inventor, principal-investigator, postdoctoral-researcher, support-staff **IMO we could go far just by having the ability to define between three types of Contributors: authors, translators, other.** - Contibutors belonging to a userGroup marked as "Author" would be listed as authors are listed now. We could have a function for calling just these types of contributors and leaving out other types. - Contibutors belonging to a userGroup marked as "Translator" would be listed in the landing page with the given UserGroupName mentioned after the Contributor name and shown according to the standards defined in citation styles and different metadata schemas. - Contibutors belonging to a userGroup marked as "Other" would *only* be listed in the landing page with the given UserGroupName mentioned after the Contributor name. This type could be used for all kinds of contributors that do not need to be mentioned in metadata exports, like illustrators, photographers etc.

Feel free to add additional comments there too, if you’d like.

I think there will be a desire to integrate the CASRAI standard as noted in this issue for future versions too. Like you, I too would be curious if folks have found a work arounds.

-Roger
PKP Team

lsteele · February 16, 2022, 9:05am

Hi Roger,
thank you for your reply. the contributor role integration would be a welcome addition, I agree. Not quite what I was looking for and frankly many solutions are messy. I found a rough way around so it will have to do for now!
Have a good day,
Lucia

hcl · April 12, 2023, 8:45am

Hello everybody,

I come back to this post from last year.

At the University of Bordeaux we host about ten journals currently on OJS 3.2.1.3 and soon on OJS 3.3.0-XX.

One of our journals asked us if it would possible in OJS, like in some others journals platforms, to highlight all the main authors of an article by displaying their email (those with a permanent email address except some exceptions like retirement departures).

This would allow equivalent recognition of scientists who have worked in a similar way for an article, instead of having to make a choice, which can sometimes lead to conflicts between authors.

If I’m right, currently in OJS, it’s only possible to highlight 1 author and displaying his email if she/he is identified as the principal contact for editorial correspondence ?

Maybe @rcgillis could tell if such feature is considered or planned in future OJS releases ?

And I have a question for @lsteele to know which way have you found to display equally contributing authors in OJS 3.3 ?

Thanks in advance for your answers.
Best regards.
Helene

rcgillis · April 12, 2023, 10:21am

Hi @hcl,

I had a look through our Github issues and couldn’t really find something that is closed to what you’ve described (although, as I note above there are some similar efforts in that direction, but not quite the same) . What I would encourage you to do is start a new post here on the forum and use the “Feature Requests” category and follow the template provided. In the post describe what you’re requesting in more detail. Our developers would then have a look at that and discuss the feasibility of developing such a feature when they are available.

-Roger
PKP Team

lsteele · April 13, 2023, 1:27pm

Hi hcl,
take a look at this example: https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/jcb/article/view/2317
I am not sure it is the best way to display, but it allowed a certain amount of transparency.
I added this information to the biography section in the contributor (author) list:

I hope this helps you, at least for the time being.
Regards,
Lucia

asmecher · April 13, 2023, 5:17pm

Hi all,

I don’t have a better solution at the moment than what’s suggested above (thanks, @lsteele!) – but the question of differing contributions did come up in the context of CRediT support. We did some work on a CRediT plugin last year during a sprint (see https://pkp.sfu.ca/2022/07/08/helsinki-sprint-2022-notes-released-contributor-roles/) and noticed that at least one other system includes not just the role but the “size” of contribution (small/medium/large). That’s not prescribed by CRediT but would be interesting to see someone standardize as well.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team