Brief communication: fractional counting of multiauthored publications: consequences for the impact of authors

摘要

The problem of multiple-authorship in bibliometrics was recently discussed in this journal by Burrell and Rousseau (1995) and by Egghe (1996). Although relat- Ing bibliomentric scores of researchers with the quality of Their research is-in general-not a simple matter, in The case of multiauthored articles, simple arithmetics Comes into play (Lindsay, 1980; Price, 1981).