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Collaborative patterns and age structures in Chinese publications

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This paper is the continued study on age structure of scientific collaboration in Chinese computer science. Based on an extended database a new method is used to analyze the nature and preference of collaboration. Observed values of two- three- and four-dimensional collaboration were compared respectively with their expected values. Investigation covered co-authors" combination patterns, name permutations in their papers, especially the age of the first author.

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  1. Institute for Science, Technology and Society, Henan Normal University, China, Xinxiang, Henan, 453002, China

    Liming Liang & Yongzheng Guo

  2. School of Information Systems, Technology and Management The University of New South Wales, (Australia)

    Mari Davis

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Liang, L., Guo, Y. & Davis, M. Collaborative patterns and age structures in Chinese publications. Scientometrics 54, 473–489 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016042718548

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