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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Main Author: Abdolhossein Farajpahlou
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Language:fas
Published: Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology 2007-10-01
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
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description 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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