bibliometrix (version 0.1)

dominance: Authors' dominance ranking

Description

It calculates the authors' dominance ranking from an object of the class 'bibliometrix' as proposed by Kumar & Kumar, 2008.

Usage

dominance(results, k = 10)

Arguments

results

is an object of the class 'bibliometrix' for which the analysis of the authors' dominance ranking is desired.

k

is an integer, used for table formatting (number of authors). Default value is 10.

Value

• The function dominance returns a data frame with cases corresponding to the first k most productive authors and variables to typical field of a dominance analysis. the data frame variables are: lll{ Dominance Factor Dominance Factor (DF = FAA / MAA) Multi Authored N. of Multi Authored Articles (MAA) First Authored N. of First Authored Articles (FAA) Rank by Articles Author Ranking by N. of Articles Rank by DF Author Ranking by Dominance Factor}

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis summary method for class 'bibliometrix'

Examples

data(scientometrics)
results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)
DF=dominance(results)
DF