Abstract
A proposal is made so that the p-index (a composite performance index that can effectively combine size and quality of scientific papers) can be extended for bibliometric research assessment in cases where multiple authorship is taken into account. The fractional and harmonic p-indices are applied to some recent examples to show their usefulness.
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The author is grateful to anonymous reviewers for pointing out that the present protocol has a universal character and can be applied to any generalised fractionating scheme. The author is also grateful to the reviewers for pointing out the recently introduced original concept of Hirsch (2010) for taking multiple authorship into account in calculating the h-index.
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Prathap, G. The fractional and harmonic p-indices for multiple authorship. Scientometrics 86, 239–244 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0257-x
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