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The Demise of Single-Authored Publications in Computer Science: A Citation Network Analysis
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2020
arXiv
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In this study, I analyze the DBLP bibliographic database to study role of single author publications in the computer science literature between 1940 and 2019. I examine the demographics and reception by computing the population fraction, citation statistics, and PageRank scores of single author publications over the years. Both the population fraction and reception have been continuously declining since the 1940s. The overall decaying trend of single author publications is qualitatively
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