Citation Indexes Accounting for Authorship Order in Coauthored Research—Review and New Proposal

Science and Technology Libraries

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 263-278

  Abambres, Miguel ^a   Arab, Paola ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

authorship credit; bibliometry; citation index; co authored research; weighted citations

Indexed keywords

TECHNOLOGY;

AUTHORSHIP CREDIT; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICES; BIBLIOMETRY; CITATION INDEX; FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS; NOCV1; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE; WEIGHTED CITATIONS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

HUMAN; MODEL; PUBLICATION; WRITING;

EID: 84994129159     PISSN: 0194262X     EISSN: 15411109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0194262X.2016.1242450     Document Type: Article

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