As all participants in professional evaluations know, especially those concerned with rewards, and promotion and tenure, there is a pecking order according to which candidates display their accomplishments. Among the top criteria in the publish-or-perish world of academia, the listing of published papers in peer-reviewed, prestigious professional journals ranks extremely high.
Authorship is rewarded; lack thereof leads to disqualification. Apart from asking how prolific an author is, or how semin…