Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies

By O. Persson, Wolfgang Glänzel, Rickard Danell. Scientometrics, 2004

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Mapping world scientific collaboration: Authors, institutions, and countries (2012, background): “…studies of collaboration, international collaboration also tends to result in higher citations (Abramo, D'Angelo, & Solazzi, 2011; Glanzel & de Lange, 2002; Suarez-Balseiro, Garcia-Zorita, & Sanz-Casado, 2009; Hayati & Didegah, 2010; Narin, 1991; Persson, Glanzel, & Danell, 2004; He, 2009).”
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators (2015, methodology): “Various studies have for instance shown a continuously increasing trend in the average number of authors per publication (e.g., Gazni et al., 2012; Larivière et al., 2015; Persson et al., 2004; Wuchty et al., 2007).”
International collaboration in science : a new dynamic for knowledge creation (2004, background): “wheree y is the scal e exponent . The Barabasi-Alber t model (1999) shows that many real networkss (such as the Worldwide Web) are "scale free," where the value of the exponent rangess from 2 to 3.”
Ten Years of Sustainability (2009 to 2018): A Bibliometric Overview (2018, background): “Furthermore, international co-authored articles normally have a good performance in terms of numbers and citations [51,52].”