AOS – Authorship Order Score

Authorship order on a paper can turn into the most awkward conversation in research — who did "enough" to be first author, second, or senior author? Authorship Order Score (AOS) takes the politics out of it by scoring every contributor against a validated, published academic instrument instead of gut feel or seniority. For each co-author, rate their involvement — None, Partial, or Full — across the 13 criteria of the Authorship Order Score, a tool developed and validated through a three-round Delphi study and a cross-sectional survey of 132 faculty members (Masud et al., Health Professions Education, 2020). The 13 items span every phase of a research project — Conception, Planning, Execution, and Writing & Publication — each weighted by how strongly the validation study's participants agreed it matters. The app does the math for you, live, and instantly ranks every author from highest…