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It is shown that the mean number of authors per paper or the proportion of the multiple-authored papers is inadequate as a measure of the degree of collaboration in a discipline. A measure which combines some of the merits of both measures is suggested and derived. This measure, called the Collaborative Coefficient, is derived for four commonly used probability distributions.
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Ajiferuke, I., Burell, Q. & Tague, J. Collaborative coefficient: A single measure of the degree of collaboration in research. Scientometrics 14, 421–433 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017100
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