Re: [jats-list] Primary Corresponding author

["Pieter Lamers pieter.lamers@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We recently had an internal discussion about the topic of having 
multiple corresponding authors. We are seeing that universities want to 
have a single primary author, but have adopted the term corresponding 
for that. The need for a single primary author is for instance for the 
so-called Read & publish deals between a university and a publisher, 
where a university pays a sum based on some previous count of articles 
of which the corresponding author was affiliated with them. Having just 
one author means that there will not be a double count of articles with 
multiple authors from different universities. In return all current 
publications with the same criterion (within a certain timeframe) will 
be made Open Access without any further billing per article. In this day 
and age, the actual (email) correspondence can be with any number of 
authors on cc. It would be nicer if we could use an attribute /primary 
/instead of /corresp /for the intended statistics. I imagine a similar 
situation is relevant for TS. It would be useful to have a proper 
identification for /primary/ as authors may take pride in being the 
/first, primary, corresponding /one, and if it is not crystal clear to 
them that /there can be only one/, we might end up having the same 
situation with /primary/ as we were having with /corresponding./

Best
Pieter

On 12/05/2021 15:54, Nikos Markantonatos nikos@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is this information that you wish to maintain per contributor? Have 
> you considered <xref rid="..." ref-type="corresp" specific-use="primary">?
>
> If it does not have to be per contributor, then one idea would be: 
> <corresp content-type="primary"> for the primary correspondence statement.
>
> Nikos
>
> On 5/12/21 4:38 PM, Robert O'Donnell odonner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi - Any suggestions on tagging a *primary* corresponding author (CA)? We identify primary CAs in our submission and production systems, and use that info for many purposes, including read & publish deal billing, proof delivery, etc. In the final version of an article, we allow multiple authors to be tagged for correspondence using @corresp="yes". Of course, this makes it impossible to identify the *primary* corresponding author. As read & publish deal eligibility based on the primary corresponding author's affiliation grows in use, reporting via JATS on platforms like the OA Switchboard becomes increasingly inaccurate. Same goes for JATS XML ingested by Dimensions, CHORUS, etc. So it's becoming increasingly important to distinguish the primary CA. We also need for Crossref to start identifying CAs in general, and hopefully when they do, if primary CAs are tagged distinctly in JATS, Crossref metadata will reflect this.
>>
>> Thoughts and suggestions? Is such an enhancement already in the works?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
>>
>> Rob O'Donnell
>> Director of Publishing Technologies
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>>
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