An investigation of research collaboration in the sciences through the philosophical transactions 1901–1991

Qin, Jian

doi:10.1007/bf02017974

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“…However, these trends are not uniform, and must be contextualized by domain, country conditions and field of study [12-17]. Research in this respect has shown that there is a rise in institutional collaboration [18], but with the full caveats that this varies by discipline [19]. Especially in the biomedical fields, it tends to have high degrees of collaboration between institutions domestically, but not internationally [20].…”

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Research collaboration in health management research communities

Zhang

Qing-hua

et al. 2013

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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BackgroundThis study uses scientometrics methodology to reveal the status quo and emerging issues of collaboration in health management.MethodsWe searched all the articles with the keyword “health management” in the period 1999–2011 in Web of Knowledge, then 3067 articles were found. Methods such as Social network analysis (SNA), co-authorship, co-word analysis were used in this study.ResultsAnalysis of the past 13 years of research in the field of health management indicates that, whether the production of scientific research, or authors, institutions and scientific research collaboration at the national level, collaboration behavior has been growing steadily across all collaboration types. However, the international scientific research cooperation about health management study between countries needs to be further encouraged. 17 researchers can be seen as the academic leaders in this field. 37 research institutions play a vital role in the information dissemination and resources control in health management. The component analysis found that 22 research groups can be regarded as the backbone in this field. The 8 institution groups consisting of 33 institutions form the core of this field. USA, UK and Australia lie in the center by cohesive subgroup analysis; Based on keywords analysis, 44 keywords with high frequency such as care, disease, system and model were involved in the health management field.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that although it is growing steadily, collaboration behavior about health management study needs to be enhanced, especially between different institutions or countries/regions, which would promote the progress and internationalization of health management. Besides, researchers should pay attention to the cooperation of representative scholars and institutions, as well as the hot areas of research, because their experience would help us promote the research development of our nation.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research collaboration in health management research communities

Zhang

Qing-hua

et al. 2013

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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“…Co-authored publications are widely used for measuring collaboration as well as to map social networks (Bordons et al 2004;Porter et al 2007). It is well established that all types of collaboration increase over time, including collaboration between researchers, departments, countries and disciplines (Engels et al 2005;Engels and Ruschenburg 2008;Glänzel and Schubert 2004;Leydesdorff and Wagner 2008;Porter and Rafols 2009;Price 1963;Qin 1994). The measure of integration is less straightforward, and the results less conclusive.…”

Section: Measuring Interdisciplinarity In Bibliometrics Researchmentioning

confidence: 98%

Climate change and interdisciplinarity: a co-citation analysis of IPCC Third Assessment Report

Bjurström

Polk

2011

Scientometrics

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This study addresses whether interdisciplinarity is a prominent feature of climate research by means of a co-citation analysis of the IPCC Third Assessment Report. The debate on interdisciplinarity and bibliometric measures is reviewed to operationalize the contested notion of interdisciplinarity. The results, based on 6417 references of the 96 most frequently used journals, demonstrate that the IPCC assessment of climate change is best characterized by its multidisciplinarity where the physical, biological, bodily and societal dimensions are clearly separated. Although a few fields and journals integrate a wide variety of disciplines, integration occurs mainly between related disciplines (narrow interdisciplinarity) which indicate an overall disciplinary basis of climate research. It is concluded that interdisciplinarity is not a prominent feature of climate research. The significance of this finding is explored, given that the problem scope of climate change necessitates interdisciplinarity. Ways to promote interdisciplinarity are suggested by way of conclusion.

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“…Mostly, these studies have concentrated on countryto-country collaboration, revealing general patterns of interaction. Qin made a study of co-authorships in the journal Philosophical Transactions and found that "interinstitutional and international collaboration seem to have become increasingly prevalent, accounting for more than 30% of all co-authored papers in the more recent years" (QIN, 1994). The major forces governing the network of collaboration seem to be the size of national research and development (R&D) systems and the geographical distances separating them.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%