11.06.2019
Large publishing consortia produce higher citation impact research but co-author contributions are hard to evaluate
« This paper introduces a simple agglomerative clustering method to identify large publishing consortia with at least 20 authors and 80% shared authorship between articles. Based on Scopus journal articles 1996-2018, under these criteria, nearly all (88%) of the large consortia published research with citation impact above the world average, with the exceptions being mainly the newer consortia for which average citation counts are unreliable. On average, consortium research had almost double (1.95) the world average citation impact on the log scale used (Mean Normalised Log Citation Score). (…) »
source > arxiv.org, Mike Thelwall, 5 juin 2019, arXiv:1906.01849
