A study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in Iran between 2005 and 2009.

J Educ Health Promot · 2014 · PMC4165092 · PMID 25250365

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

On the other hand, all of the other co-authorship patterns (those with two, three, four, and more than four authors) show an increasing trend.

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

On the other hand, despite some fluctuations, individual articles show a decreasing trend with the least number of individual articles being published in year 2009 [ Figure 1 ].

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