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Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Measurements of publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Measurements of text corpora. Agenda and Minutes To find this page go to: https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com (then click a " READ MORE " link) We discussed Jain and Chandra (2025), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.18236. Conclusions: Equates last and first authorship - an apples and oranges problem that should be handled with *different* metrics, not one metric that confuses apples and oranges. Crediting function is qualitatively "reasonable" at least for some fields but quantitatively it is quite arbitrary. This is a key problem from our perspective. Intervals can do it in a more principled way. 2nd-to-last author looks like 2nd author - seems rarely reasonable. Another relevant article suggested by TT: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejn.70464 . The...