Fractional counts for authorship attribution: A numerical study

Quentin Burrell and Ronald Rousseau

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995, vol. 46, issue 2, 97-102

Abstract: Responding to Leimkuhler's call for more computer experimentation in informetrics, this numerical study aims to illustrate observed appearances of fractional counts graphs. For instance, assuming a Lotka distribution for articles per author, it shows that for fields in which the single‐author article dominates, a maximum value will always occur at one. However, in fields where the multiauthored article dominates, this maximum may be smaller than one. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1995
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