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TAKING CREDIT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

Stewart Manley
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Abstract

A team of two brothers enters a baking contest. Their cake wins the first-place prize of £500. Will they demand £500 each? Of course not. Winners must split the prize. We often ignore this when we claim credit for team accomplishments. We take more credit than we deserve. I apply this idea to baking competitions and academic production but it applies equally to other arenas with teams of varying sizes.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 18 , Issue 52 , Summer 2019 , pp. 59 - 68
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2019 

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1 I am not the first to propose that credit for authorship be divided. See, for example, Clement, T. Prabhakar, ‘Authorship Matrix: A Rational Approach to Quantify Individual Contributions and Responsibilities in Multi-Author Scientific Articles’, Science and Engineering Ethics 20(2) (2014): 345–61CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.