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 appear in at least I1 papers written by that author and Np are his/her total papers. Higher R means lower collaborative behavior, i.e. not working much with others, or not collaborating repeatedly with the same co-authors. (…) »
source > journals.plos.org, Austin J. Parish , Kevin W. Boyack, John P. A. Ioannidis, janvier 2018
