Fractional Counting of Multiauthored Publications: Consequences for the Impact of Authors.

Hooydonk, G. Van

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Publication Date: 1997

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Fractional Counting of Multiauthored Publications: Consequences for the Impact of Authors.

Hooydonk, G. Van

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v48 n10 p944-45 Oct 1997

Reviews journal discussion of the problem of multiple-authorship in bibliometrics. Discusses three methods by Egghe and Rousseau: first author counting, normal counting and fractional counting. (JAK)

Descriptors: Authors, Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis, Collaborative Writing, Fractions, Scholarly Journals, Scholarly Writing, Writing for Publication

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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