Currently we can specify whether an author equally contributed or not. But we cannot specify which author contributed equally relative to each other.
Consider the following scenario ...
An article has five authors:
Melissa Harrison
James Gilbert
Fred Atherden
Michael Aufreiter
Oliver Buchtala
I want to indicate that authors 1 and 2 contributed equally relative to each other, and authors 4 and 5 contributed equally relative to each other. I don't think this is possible in the current interface. I can only indicate an equal contribution status using this checkbox:
It might be that in the current interface authors 1,2,4 and 5 all are indicated as having contributed equally relative to each other.
Considering something similar (although obviously not the same) to the funding dropdown might be appropriate/useful:
Currently we can specify whether an author equally contributed or not. But we cannot specify which author contributed equally relative to each other.
Consider the following scenario ... An article has five authors:
I want to indicate that authors 1 and 2 contributed equally relative to each other, and authors 4 and 5 contributed equally relative to each other. I don't think this is possible in the current interface. I can only indicate an equal contribution status using this checkbox:
It might be that in the current interface authors 1,2,4 and 5 all are indicated as having contributed equally relative to each other.
Considering something similar (although obviously not the same) to the funding dropdown might be appropriate/useful: