author_weights: Compute positional author weights for a single paper

In bibnets: Importing, Constructing, and Exporting Bibliometric Networks

Compute positional author weights for a single paper

Description

Given the number of authors and their positions, returns a weight vector for positional counting methods. All methods normalize weights to sum to 1 per paper. Position-independent methods (fractional, paper, strength) are handled by apply_counting() instead.

Usage

author_weights(
  n,
  counting = "fractional",
  position_weights = c(1, 0.8, 0.6, 0.4),
  first_last_weight = 2
)

Arguments

n	Integer. Number of authors.
counting	Character. Counting method.
position_weights	Numeric vector. Custom weights for counting = "position_weighted". Default c(1, 0.8, 0.6, 0.4).
first_last_weight	Numeric. Multiplier for first/last authors when counting = "first_last". Default 2.

Value

Numeric vector of length n, summing to 1.

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