partnership ability
Properties
- Metric Type: Basic Statistic
- Considerations and Adjustments: Coauthorship
- Publication Focus: All Publications
Description
The partnership ability index (Schubert 2012) is the collaborator equivalent of the h-index. It is the largest value for which φ coauthors of the target author have produced at least φ publications with the target author.
A φ of zero would indicate the target author has only produced solo-author publications. A φ of one indicates at least one coauthor on one publication, but also at most one coauthor with whom they have published more than once.
φ is essentially a simple form of a collaboration network metric.
History
| Year | φ |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2000 | 3 |
| 2001 | 3 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 4 |
| 2004 | 4 |
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2006 | 4 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2008 | 4 |
| 2009 | 4 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 5 |
References
- Schubert, A. (2012) A Hirsch-type index of co-author partnership ability. Scientometrics 91:303-308.