Effects of research complexity and competition on the incidence and growth of coauthorship in biomedicine.

BACKGROUND:Investigations into the factors behind coauthorship growth in biomedical research have mostly focused on specific disciplines or journals, and have rarely controlled for factors in combination or considered changes in their effects over time. Observers often attribute the growth to the in...

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Main Authors: Jason Cory Brunson, Xiaoyan Wang, Reinhard C Laubenbacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5362051?pdf=render