Team size matters: Collaboration and scientific impact since 1900

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1323-1332

  Larivière, Vincent ^a   Gingras, Yves ^b   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^c   Tsou, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bibliometrics

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; TEAM SIZE;

EID: 84941927162     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23266     Document Type: Article

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