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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Informetr. 2011 Jan 1;5(1):187–203. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.10.008

Table 3.

General statistics of coauthorship in IR

1956-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000 2001-2008
% of Single authored papers 69.53% 62.86% 29.96% 15.48%
% of coauthored papers (2 authors) 18.05% 20.95% 33.04% 31.00%
% of coauthored papers (3 authors) 7.39% 9.80% 20.78% 26.41%
% of coauthored papers (4 authors) 3.20% 3.83% 8.85% 15.05%
% of coauthored papers (>4 authors) 1.83% 2.56% 7.38% 12.05%