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Contributions of chinese authors in PLOS ONE
Author(s) -
Yan Sulan,
Rousseau Ronald,
Huang Shuiqing
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23400
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , odds , library science , combinatorics , computer science , mathematics , statistics , physics , optics , logistic regression
Beginning with a short review of Public Library of Science ( PLOS ) journals, we focus on PLOS ONE and more specifically the contributions of C hinese authors to this journal. It is shown that their contribution is growing exponentially. In 2013 almost one fifth of all publications in this journal had at least one C hinese author. The average number of citations per publication is approximately the same for articles with a C hinese author and for articles without any C hinese coauthor. Using the odds‐ratio, we could not find arguments that C hinese authors in PLOS ONE excessively cite other C hinese contributions.