Relationship among first author and co-author productivity,influence,and cited frequency of papers
[Purposes]This paper aims to compare correlation differences between the productivity and influence of the first author and co-author of academic papers with the cited frequency of papers after publication,providing a certain reference for journal editors to screen highly cited papers in the preliminary review.[Methods]In this study,484 papers published in 2017 in the Acta Editologica and Chinese Journal of Scientific and Technical Periodicals were selected.Among them,142 papers had only one author,and 342 papers had two or more authors.The cited frequency of all papers was collected from CNKI,and the productivity of the authors was measured by the number of papers published from 2014 to 2020.The influence of the authors was characterized by the h index of the authors in the same period.The correlation among the author productivity,influence,and cited frequency of 484 papers was statistically analyzed.[Findings]The cited frequency of papers with only one author is not related to author productivity(r=0.163,P=0.053)but positively correlated with author influence(r=0.287,P<0.001).In papers with two or more authors,the cited frequency of papers is positively correlated with the productivity and influence of the first author(r=0.195,P<0.001;r=0.320,P<0.001),as well as the productivity and influence of co-authors(r=0.115,P<0.001;r=0.134,P<0.001).[Conclusions]For papers with only one author or with two or more authors,papers with a high h index for the first author and co-authors are highly cited after publication,and papers from co-authors with higher productivity are highly cited after publication.The results suggest that journal editors may screen out highly cited papers by referring to the author's h index and co-author productivity during the preliminary review of manuscripts.
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