The increasing authorship trend in neuroscience: A scientometric analysis across 11 countries.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have demonstrated an increasing trend of the number of authors across various fields over the years. This trend has been attributed to the necessity for larger collaborations and, at times, to ethical issues regarding authorship attribution. Our study focuses on the evolution of authorship trends in the field of Neuroscience. We conducted our analysis based on a dataset containing 580,782 neuroscience publications produced from 2000 to 2022, focusing on the publications within the Group of ten (G10) countries. Using a matrix-based methodology, we extracted and analyzed the average number of authors per country. Our findings reveal a consistent rise in authorship across all G10 countries over the past two decades. Italy emerged with the highest average number of authors, wh

SUBMITTER: Paul A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11201119 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature