Measuring co-authors’ contribution to an article’s visibility

Leo Egghe (), Raf Guns () and Ronald Rousseau ()
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Leo Egghe: Universiteit Hasselt (UHasselt)
Raf Guns: Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), IBW
Ronald Rousseau: Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), IBW

Scientometrics, 2013, vol. 95, issue 1, No 6, 55-67

Abstract: Abstract The visibility of an article depends to a large extent on its authors. We study the question how each co-author’s relative contribution to the visibility of the article can be determined and quantified using an indicator, referring to such an indicator as a CAV-indicator. A two-step procedure is elaborated, whereby one first chooses an indicator (e.g. total number of citations, h-index …) and subsequently one of two possible approaches. The case where the indicator is an h-type index is elaborated in a Lotkaian framework. Different examples illustrate the procedure and the choices involved in determining a CAV-indicator.

Keywords: Visibility indicators; Power law model; h-index; Citation analysis; Co-authorship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0832-4

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