Co-authorship networks in social sciences: The case of Turkey

Rebound Effects and ICT: A Review of the Literature

“…This phenomenon has gone hand in hand with the diffusion of procedures to evaluate researchers based on the quality and number of publications. Studies show that when such measures are put in place, the impact factor decreases [52], for example because instead of publishing one single paper in a very good journal with a longer evaluation process, researchers tend to send several papers to journals with shorter publishing times but lower impact factors. As a consequence of this overflow of knowledge diffusion, although the efficiency of carrying out research has increased tremendously it has become more difficult to assimilate knowledge because there is so much of it.…”

Knowledge network centrality, formal rank and research performance: evidence for curvilinear and interaction effects

“…Our research saw the need to conduct social network research in the academic context because of the different and contrasting nature of academic organizations. Although few studies have explored the concept of centrality in academic co-authorship networks (Zurián et al 2007;Gossart and Ö zman 2009;Newman 2004;Nagpaul 2002), they studied centrality as a tool to reveal the structural properties (such as identification of influential nodes) of the network and lack an insight about the outcomes of centrality for nodes in the network. In addition, while a few studies have investigated and identified the positive influence of centrality on performance outcomes in co-authorship networks (Abbasi et al 2011;Eaton et al 1999;Liao 2011), they lack an insight about the diminishing returns of different dimensions of centrality and the potential moderating effects of individual characteristics.…”

“…We argue that literature on co-authorship networks lacks contribution from a developing country perspective-a perspective which might provide critical insights due to underdeveloped research infrastructure leading to lackluster formal mechanisms for knowledge flow in higher education sector of these countries (Gossart and Ö zman 2009). …”

Issues in the analysis of co-authorship networks

“…employment by an organization); (ii) an event-based approach founded on participation in some class of relational events (actors are connected by co-attendance at events); (iii) a relational approach guided by social linkages among actors. The positional approach can be used whenever the interest lies in intra-organizational or intra-disciplinary patterns of co-authorship relationships (examples of this approach can be found in Yousefi-Nooraie et al 2008;Gossart and Ozman 2009;Ferligoj and Kronegger 2009). The starting point is a list of researchers affiliated to a given research institution or discipline and the interest is toward their relationships, disregarding the possible ties activated with external authors.…”