Scientometric Indicators and Collaboration Network as a Potential Tool for Gift Author Detection

In our research, we were looking for some criteria detecting incorrect lists of co-authors. We focused our efforts on a gift author problem. The term gift author describes a situation where a person is listed as a co-author but this person has an indirect relationship to the work. Scientometric analysis of the main publications of the Russian dissertations was performed. The open database of dissertations (website http://vak.ed.gov.ru/dis-list, websites of organizations, where dissertations were defended) and CRIS of Astrakhan State University (ASU) http://science.asu.edu.ru were used for the research.