dominance function

Authors' dominance ranking

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

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.

Returns

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:

Author		Author's name
Dominance Factor		Dominance Factor (DF = FAA / MAA)
Tot Articles		N. of Authored Articles (TAA)
Single Authored		N. of Single-Authored Articles (SAA)
Multi Authored		N. of Multi-Authored Articles (MAA=TAA-SAA)
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

Examples

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")
results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)
DF=dominance(results)
DF

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'