dominance: Authors' dominance ranking

In bibliometrix: Comprehensive Science Mapping Analysis

Authors' dominance ranking

Description

It calculates the authors' dominance ranking from an object of the class 'bibliometrix' as proposed by Kumar & Kumar, 2008.

Usage

dominance(results, k = 10)

Arguments

results	is an object of the class 'bibliometrix' for which the analysis of the authors' dominance ranking is desired.
k	is an integer, used for table formatting (number of authors). Default value is 10.

Value

The function dominance returns a data frame with cases corresponding to the first k most productive authors and variables to typical field of a dominance analysis.

the data frame variables are:

Author		Author's name
Dominance Factor		Dominance Factor (DF = FAA / MAA)
Tot Articles		N. of Authored Articles (TAA)
Single Authored		N. of Single-Authored Articles (SAA)
Multi Authored		N. of Multi-Authored Articles (MAA=TAA-SAA)
First Authored		N. of First Authored Articles (FAA)
Rank by Articles		Author Ranking by N. of Articles
Rank by DF		Author Ranking by Dominance Factor

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'

Examples

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")
results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)
DF=dominance(results)
DF

bibliometrix documentation built on July 3, 2024, 5:07 p.m.