The reason I wanted something deterministic is that I wasn’t convinced that scientists would generally trust something that looked random with the stakes being somewhat high. When I think about the amount of scientific fraud, I’m not even sure that they should trust each other.
My alphabetical scheme isn’t ideally random—it gives an advantage to authors whose names begin with unusual letters.
Thanks for the information that date of publication can be somewhat foggy.
The reason I wanted something deterministic is that I wasn’t convinced that scientists would generally trust something that looked random with the stakes being somewhat high. When I think about the amount of scientific fraud, I’m not even sure that they should trust each other.
My alphabetical scheme isn’t ideally random—it gives an advantage to authors whose names begin with unusual letters.
Thanks for the information that date of publication can be somewhat foggy.