Determining the number of authors per article
This application would count the number of authors per article per year in a broad topical search results set. Ideally authors’ names would be coupled with institutional affiliation. For example, For example, in the search set [(rna or "ribonucleic acid") and (2000-2011)], what % papers have 1 author, % papers have 2 authors, % papers have 3 authors, up to what % have 10 authors, by year.
Value for Users
Bibliographic databases deliver results sets. In most cases, they do not "count" bibliometrics. As libraries negotiate licenses, they need to keep in mind the nature of collaborative scientific scholarship. Such an app would inform such questions as: What is the nature of scientific collaboration as determined by author attribution and institutional affiliation? Has the number of co-authors changed over time? Do authors tend to collaborate intra-institutionally or inter-institutionally?
Application Users
Users include licensing librarians, liaison librarians working with their constituents, departmental administrators, academic research and sponsored programs administrators.
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2 Comments
Meh.
I think the idea is good, as an application of this type could facilitate the collection of statistical data help determine the degree of existing scientific collaboration in a thematic and a period of time with the counting of authorship and coauthorship which can be multiple and respective affiliation understand the behavior of such collaboration, but also could know what most productive authors the selected period, it is true that databases typically do not provide this information useful for librarians who provide services to researchers, project managers, teaching and academic research, scientific leadership and administrative policies, etc.