Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences   When researchers
from different fields with different norms collaborate, the
question arises of how name-ordering conventions are chosen and
how they affect contribution credits. In this paper, we answer
these questions by studying two disciplines that exemplify the
two cornerstones of name-ordering conventions: lexicographical
ordering (i.e., alphabetical ordering, endorsed in economics)
and nonlexicographical ordering (i.e., ordering according to
individual contributions, endorsed in psychology). Inferences
about credits are unambiguous in the latter arrangement but
imperfect in the former, because alphabetical listing can
reflect ordering according to individual contributions by
chance. We contrast the fields of economics and psychology with
marketing, a discipline heavily influenced by both. Based on
archival data, consisting of more than 38,000 journal articles,
we show that the three fields have different ordering practices.
In two empirical studies with 351