Research evaluation systems -- including journals, conferences, and funders -- are increasingly using author-level submission limits to manage growing submission loads. Most existing policies charge each submission as a unit cost against every coauthor's quota. This treats a solo-authored submission and a large collaborative submission identically for each author, even though the reviewing demand of a collaborative submission is jointly attributable to many authors rather than one. Thus we ask the question: how many submissions may an author make under coauthorships? We propose a "Harmonic Quota Rule", in which an author's cost for a submission decreases with the number of coauthors as the reciprocal of their harmonic number. We derive this rule in a principled manner that navigates the tension between respecting collaborations and being resistant to manipulation by adding spurious authors. We also develop a Generalized Harmonic Quota Rule, a framework that subsumes the Harmonic Quota Rule and other natural quota rules. Our framework requires specification of only three interpretable parameters, thereby enabling organizers to choose among various seemingly disparate rules. Our work may also be useful in other scarce-resource allocation settings, such as allocation of compute and telescope time. An interactive tool is available at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nihars/quota/organizer.html

翻译：研究评价系统（包括期刊、会议和资助机构）正越来越多地采用作者层面的提交限额，以应对日益增长的投稿负荷。现有政策通常将每次提交视为对每位合著者配额的一个单位成本扣减。这种做法将单人独立提交与大型合作提交视为对每位作者具有相同成本，然而合作提交产生的评审需求应由多位作者共同承担，而非仅归属于某一作者。由此我们提出一个问题：在存在合著关系的情况下，作者最多可以提交多少篇论文？我们提出一种“调和配额规则”，在该规则下，作者为某次提交所承担的成本随合著者数量的增加而递减，递减规律为该合著者数量的调和数的倒数。我们以一种原则性方式推导出该规则，该方式平衡了尊重合作关系与通过添加虚假作者进行操纵的抵抗性之间的矛盾。我们还开发了一种广义调和配额规则框架，该框架将调和配额规则及其他自然配额规则作为特例包含在内。该框架仅需指定三个可解释参数，从而允许组织者在多种看似迥异的规则中进行选择。我们的工作也可应用于其他稀缺资源分配场景，例如计算资源与望远镜时间的分配。交互式工具访问地址为：https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nihars/quota/organizer.html