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The Liberman-Wolf bonding number can not be considered as an acceptable measure for the internal bonding of a research group or community. This is shown by a construction where adding the same number of articles with the same number of co-authors to two existing groups (with a given number of articles with one or two collaborators) reverses the original order in these groups' bonding numbers.
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Rousseau, R., Rousseau, S. Remarks concerning the Liberman-Wolf bonding number. Scientometrics 67, 167–173 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0091-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0091-3