Fractional counting of multiauthored publications: Consequences for the impact of authors

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 944-945

  Van Hooydonk, G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PUBLISHING;

FRACTIONAL COUNTING METHOD; MULTIAUTHORED PUBLICATIONS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0031258746     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199710)48:10<944::AID-ASI8>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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