Macro-Indicators of Citation Impacts of Six Prolific Countries: InCites Data and the Statistical Significance of Trends

Lutz Bornmann; Loet Leydesdorff

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056768

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Macro-Indicators of Citation Impacts of Six Prolific Countries: InCites Data and the Statistical Significance of Trends

Lutz Bornmann ,

* E-mail: bornmann@gv.mpg.de

Affiliation Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany
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Loet Leydesdorff

Affiliation Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Macro-Indicators of Citation Impacts of Six Prolific Countries: InCites Data and the Statistical Significance of Trends

Lutz Bornmann,
Loet Leydesdorff

Published: February 13, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056768

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Co-authorship

Posted by crevie on 16 Feb 2013 at 20:32 GMT

What is the policy of the InCites tool on papers which are co-authored by researchers from multiple countries? i.e. Do such papers get allocated to the country of, say, the leada uthor; or are they counted on the citation counts of all countries in which any of the authors is based?

No competing interests declared.

RE: Co-authorship

LBornmann-343 replied to crevie on 17 Feb 2013 at 16:18 GMT

All addresses attributed to the papers are counted. Thomson Reuters uses whole counting for InCites: Counts are not weighted by numbers of authors or number of addresses.

No competing interests declared.

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