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. 2020 Nov 21;24(3):541–553. doi: 10.1007/s10071-020-01448-2

Table 2.

Main information about the collection reported separately for “earlier analysis” (EA: 1993–2005) and “recent analysis” (RA: 2006–2018), with EA-RA variation

Main information about collection
Period EA (1993–2005) RA (2006–2018) EA-RA variation
Documents 218 1307 5.00
Sources 34 85 1.50
Keywords plus (ID) 493 2557 4.19
Author’s keywords (DE) 368 2462 5.69
Average citations per documents 62 15 − 0.76
Authors 397 2666 5.72
Author appearances 722 5393 6.47
Authors of single-authored documents 26 37 0.42
Authors of multi-authored documents 371 2692 6.26
Single-authored documents 34 46 0.35
Documents per Author 0.549 0.490 − 0.11
Authors per document 1.82 2 0.12
Co-Authors per documents 3.31 4 0.25
Collaboration Index 2.02 2 0.03