Single authorship in SciELO Chile: authorial practices in scientific areas

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2017.332

Keywords:

Authorial practices, SciELO Chile, Scientific areas, Scientific productivity, Single authors

Abstract

Given the importance of cooperation analysis, the scientific productivity study has been focused on multiple rather than single authorship. This article aims at analyzing single authorship in SciELO Chile between 2010 and 2014. The ratios of single to multiple authorship, and number of contributions to single authors for each scientific field were estimated using 9,541 entries. Single authorship, on the one hand, accounts for the 29% of total analyzed papers and is a usual practice in humanities and social sciences. On the other, single authors tend to be occasional, i.e., they write alone and only once. The study of single authorship is key to understanding the particular dynamics involved in the construction of scientific knowledge and to generating research policies.

Author Biographies

Paulina Meza, Universidad de La Serena - La Serena

Profesora e investigadora post-doctoral de la Universidad de La Serena. Departamento de Artes y Letras.

Omar Sabaj, Universidad de La Serena - La Serena

Profesor e investigador de la Universidad de La Serena. Departamento de Artes y Letras.

Ken Matsuda, Universidad de La Serena - La Serena

Profesor e investigador de la Universidad de La Serena. Departamento de Matemáticas.

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2017-07-03

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Meza, P., Sabaj, O., & Matsuda, K. (2017). Single authorship in SciELO Chile: authorial practices in scientific areas. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (66), 11–19. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2017.332

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No. 66 (2017)

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