Fractional Counts for Authorship Attribution: A Numerical Study.

Burrell, Quentin; Rousseau, Ronald

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ERIC Number: EJ499773

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Publication Date: 1995

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Fractional Counts for Authorship Attribution: A Numerical Study.

Burrell, Quentin; Rousseau, Ronald

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v46 n2 p97-102 Mar 1995

Discussion of authorship distributions focuses on the results of a numerical study for fractional authorship attribution. Highlights include coauthors; multinomial coefficients; Lotka functions; probability distributions of articles per author; and probability distributions of authors per article. (LRW)

Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Mathematical Formulas, Probability, Scholarly Journals, Statistical Distributions

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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