How to sort view by the weight of referenced nodes?
I found out that the :delta component of the field (e.g. field_authors:delta) can do this trick.

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Some more explanation: Let's say field_authors contains the reference to connected authors. Among the sorting options there's a field_authors:delta which contains numbers for each referenced node (0, 1, 2...) and represnts their actual order.