Multiple authorship and citation analysis
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scottish Geographical Magazine
- Vol. 111 (3) , 168-171
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00369229518736959
Abstract
A major deficiency in contemporary citation analysis is the exclusion of citations to second and subsequent authors in multi‐author publications. Using twelve geographers as illustration, it is shown that a failure to consider multiple authorship will underestimate the citation levels of some authors.Keywords
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