It is shown that the mean number of authors per paper or the proportion of the multiple-authored papers is inadequate as a measure of the degree of collaboration in a discipline. A measure which combines some of the merits of both measures is suggested and derived. This measure, called the Collabora...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology
2007-10-01
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| Series: | Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management |
| Online Access: | http://jipm.irandoc.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-45&slc_lang=en&sid=1 |
| Summary: | It is shown that the mean number of authors per paper or the proportion of the multiple-authored papers is inadequate as a measure of the degree of collaboration in a discipline. A measure which combines some of the merits of both measures is suggested and derived. This measure, called the Collaborative Coefficient, is derived for four commonly used probability distributions |
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| ISSN: | 2251-8223 2251-8231 |