Scientometrics
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Volume 87: Issue 1
Comments on the modified collaborative coefficient
Author:
Ronald RousseauKHBO (Association K.U. Leuven), Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Zeedijk 101, 8400, Oostende, Belgium
University of Antwerp (UA), IBW, Venusstraat 35, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium
Department of Mathematics, K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001, Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium

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Pages:
171–174
Online Publication Date:
16 Oct 2010
Publication Date:
01 Apr 2011
Article Category:
Letter
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0300-y
Keywords:
Collaborative coefficient; Egghe's requirements for collaboration measures; Scale invariance
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Abstract

It is shown that the observations made in a recent contribution by Savanur and Srikanth (Scientometrics 84:365–371, ) are not new. On the contrary much more refined collaboration measures have been proposed already in 1991 by Egghe.

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