Alphabetization and the skewing of first authorship towards last names early in the alphabet

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 575-582

  Levitt, Jonathan M ^a,b   Thelwall, Mike ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Research evaluation; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

COLLABORATION; RESEARCH EVALUATION; SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; SCIENTOMETRICS; SIMILAR PATTERN;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876423739     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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