Co-authors

On ARIADNE co-authorship is part of the protocol. The submitter (the wallet that publishes) declares the co-authors in the publication itself, and each co-author confirms by signing from their own wallet. Only confirmed co-authors count as authors: they share the reputation the article earns and follow the rules every author follows.

In short

• Co-authors are declared once, in the publish form: at most 25 addresses, never your own.
• The list can never change: nobody can be added, removed or replaced later.
• Each co-author confirms later, from their own wallet.
• The article’s votes are split into equal shares, one for the submitter and one for each declared co-author; the submitter also receives the rounding.
• A declared co-author who votes on or reviews the article can no longer confirm.
• The share of a co-author who never confirms is never claimed by anyone.

Declare co-authors when you publish

1. On the publish page (https://ariadne.press/testnet/publish), in 1. Metadata (immutable once published), find Co-authors (addresses, one per line; at most 25).
2. Paste each co-author’s Algorand address (see wallets and your address). Spaces, commas and semicolons also separate addresses.
3. Or find them by ORCID iD (below).
4. Check every address shown under the list. The form refuses invalid addresses, duplicates, your own address and more than 25 entries.
5. Continue with the content and sign as described in publish an article. The app writes the co-authors into the authors list of the header for you.

You pay one small storage deposit per declared co-author: 0.0293 ALGO each, on top of the 0.2122 ALGO of the publication. See costs and deposits.

Check before you sign

The address is what gets declared, and the list can never be corrected. A wrong address is a share that nobody will ever claim.

Find a co-author by ORCID iD

Under the co-author list, type the iD in Find a co-author by ORCID iD and click Find. The form offers the addresses whose link to that iD is verified on this network; Add puts one in the list. If none is found, the form says so: ask your co-author to link their ORCID iD from their profile, or paste their address. The address that is added is still what gets declared: check it like any other.

Confirm as a co-author

When you are declared, your inbox shows a co-author invitation. Then:

1. Open the article with the wallet whose address was declared.
2. The page says “You are declared as a co-author of this article. Confirming makes your share of its votes claimable.”
3. Check the cost (network fee only, no deposit) and click Confirm co-authorship.

Until you confirm, the article page lists you as “(declared, not yet confirmed)”.

You can confirm once, while the article is a preprint, under review or a closed version. You cannot confirm while it is disputed or after it is retracted, and never after you have voted on the article or reviewed it. The app reminds you of this before you vote.

How the votes are shared

Votes for an article do not give reputation when they are cast; they add up in the article as its total weight, T. The article has N equal shares, fixed when it was published: N = 1 + the number of declared co-authors (confirmed or not). Then:

• each confirmed co-author is entitled to T ÷ N, rounded down;
• the submitter is entitled to T ÷ N, rounded up (the remainder of the division goes to them);
• every share counts from the first vote, whenever the co-author confirms.

Example. An article with two declared co-authors (N = 3) receives votes of weight 1, 2, 3 and 5, so T = 11. Each confirmed co-author is entitled to 11 ÷ 3 rounded down, 3; the submitter to 11 ÷ 3 rounded up, 4.

Each author turns their share into reputation with their own transaction; see claim your reputation and reputation and vote weight.

What an unconfirmed declaration means

• Not an author yet. A declared address that has not confirmed is treated like anybody else: it may vote, review and flag the article, so nobody can be silenced by being declared without consent. Doing so, however, closes the door to confirming.
• A share nobody claims. The share of a co-author who never confirms stays unclaimed for ever; the other authors do not receive it. Declaring someone therefore costs every author part of their share, which discourages padding the list.
• The header is informative. The authors list in index.md reflects what the submitter intended for that version. The authors the page shows come from the blockchain: the submitter and the confirmed co-authors.

What confirmed authors can and cannot do

Confirmed co-authors can	No author can
claim their share of the article’s reputation	vote for, review or flag their own article
declare a DOI for the article	have their comments on it marked resolved
comment, upvote comments, mark reviews useful (an author’s useful vote grants the reviewer nothing)

Editing rights stay with the submitter: only the submitter publishes new versions, changes the status and resolves comments.

For the Peer-reviewed seal, writing an article together on ARIADNE is a conflict of interest: a review does not count when its author and an author of the reviewed article wrote an article together within 3 years of the review.

While an article is disputed, nobody can claim; if it is retracted, every author loses what they had not claimed yet.