Is there a way to show collaborations between authors/organizations? We are using the affiliations element to show affiliations already, but wondering if there is a way to differentiate collaborations.
Hello, and thanks for your question.
If you want to credit the collaboration with with authorship, our schema supports a <organization> field within the <contributors> element, and you can use that for organizational (aka corporate) authors.
If you want to simply indicate that the authors are affiliated with the collaboration, but not credit it with authorship, then then adding an additional <affiliation> tag or <institution> tag (depending on which schema version you’re using) for the additional affiliation would be the best option.
If you have an example of a publication with this kind of situation, I’d be happy to take a look, and use that to illustrate the available options.
Thanks for the reply Shayn.
We had a customer who stated they performed a query looking for collaborations but found none. Because there appears to be no way, from what I have seen, to specify collaborators is this possible?
I am trying to gather more data regarding this.
There is not a way to specifiy individual collaborators, except by characterizing them as authors. However, there is a way to indicate group authorship. For example, in the record for 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31827e83af here
https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1097/CCM.0b013e31827e83af
You can see that the collaboration called “Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Committee including the Pediatric Subgroup” is credited with authorship
{
"name": "Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Committee including the Pediatric Subgroup",
"sequence": "additional",
"affiliation": []
}
I hope that helps clarify.