Misallocation of scientific credit: the role of hierarchy and preferences. An extension of Lissoni et al. (2013)

We extend the results in Lissoni et al. (2013, J. Econ. Behav. Organ., 95, 49-69) on scientific credit misallocation, as measured by misalignment between authorship and inventorship recognition in patent-publication pairs. Extending the analysis to European data, we confirm that, other things being equal, the probability of exclusion of a scientific author from a publication-related patent declines with seniority and increases for women. In addition, we find that the senior scientists' power to exclude other authors plays a more important role in explaining the patterns of exclusion than differences in authors' attribution preferences. The unfavorable treatment of young and/or female scientists emerges in particular when patents are owned by companies or individuals, thus providing a warning flag on those institutional arrangements that favor company or individual ownership of academic patents.