Loads of special authorship functions: Linear growth in the percentage of "equal first Authors" and corresponding authors

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2378-2381

  Hu, Xiaojun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR GROWTH; RESEARCH EVALUATION;

EID: 70349931575     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21164     Document Type: Article

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