Brief Communication Single-authored publications in the sciences at Israeli universities
Abstract
This Brief Communication examines the extent of publications
written by a single author in different disciplines in
Israeli universities. In the natural sciences the share of
single-authored articles in the total amount of publications
varies slightly between the different fields of science. A
significant difference was found while comparing natural
sciences as a whole with mathematics and a major one when
compared with the social sciences and humanities. The conclusion
is that the more theoretical is the research and the
greater the share of the initial idea in the finished article, the
higher the probability that a single person will publish it.
Publisher
University of Nairobi