Authorship and citation patterns of highly cited biomedical researchers: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scientific productivity is often evaluated by means of cumulative citation metrics. Different metrics produce different incentives. The H-index assigns full credit from a citation to each coauthor, and thus may encourage multiple collaborations in mid-list author roles. In contrast, the Hm-index assigns only a fraction 1/k of citation credit to each of k coauthors of an article, and thus may encourage research done by smaller teams, and in first or last author roles. Whether H and Hm indices are influenced by different authorship patterns has not been examined.

Methods

Using a publicly available Scopus database, I examined associations between the numbers of research articles published as single, first, mid-list, or last author between 1990 and 2019, and the H-ind

SUBMITTER: Perneger T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10478343 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature