Dynamics of co-authorship and productivity across different fields of scientific research.

We aimed to assess which factors correlate with collaborative behavior and whether such behavior associates with scientific impact (citations and becoming a principal investigator). We used the R index which is defined for each author as log(Np)/log(I1), where I1 is the number of co-authors who appe...

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Main Authors: Austin J Parish, Kevin W Boyack, John P A Ioannidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5761855?pdf=render