In this study, I analyze the DBLP bibliographic database to study role of single author publications in the computer science literature between 1940 and 2019. I examine the demographics and reception by computing the population fraction, citation statistics, and PageRank scores of single author publications over the years. Both the population fraction and reception have been continuously declining since the 1940s. The overall decaying trend of single author publications is qualitatively consistent with those observed in other scientific disciplines, though the diminution is taking place several decades later than those in the natural sciences. Additionally, I analyze the scope and volume of single author publications, using page length and reference count as first-order approximations of the scope of publications. Although both metrics on average show positive correlations with citation count, single author papers show no significant difference in page or reference counts compared to the rest of the publications, suggesting that there exist other factors that impact the citations of single author publications.

中文翻译：

---

计算机科学中单一作者出版物的消亡：引文网络分析

在这项研究中，我分析了 DBLP 书目数据库，以研究 1940 年至 2019 年间单作者出版物在计算机科学文献中的作用。我通过计算人口比例、引文统计数据和单作者出版物的 PageRank 分数来检查人口统计数据和接受度。这些年。自 1940 年代以来，人口比例和接待量都在不断下降。单一作者出版物的整体衰退趋势与在其他科学学科中观察到的在性质上一致，尽管减少的时间比自然科学晚了几十年。此外，我分析了单作者出版物的范围和数量，使用页长和参考计数作为出版物范围的一阶近似值。