Brief communication: more authors, more institutions, and more funding sources: hot papers in biology from 1991 to 1993

摘要

This bibliometric study is to provide a quantitative analy- sis of the authorship of Nature, Science, and Cell from 1991 to 1993. The source data consist of two sets: The hot papers in biology and the selective sample of arti- cles, research articles, reports, or letters from three re- spective periodicals. The results show that the hot pa- pers have more authors, more institutions participating in the research than the non-hot papers. The results also show that funding sources are significantly related to the mean number of authors per paper.