Connecting the dots: implementing and evaluating a network intervention to foster scientific collaboration and productivity

Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; Vacca, Raffaele; McCarty, Christopher

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2019.11.003

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“…This shows that the current publication trend in JSTP is moving toward more collaborative work. This is not surprising as this is in line with the general trend of increasing co-authorships in many disciplines (management, marketing and service included) reported earlier (Acedo et al , 2006; Sciabolazza et al , 2020). This is seen as a way for scholars to increase their own as well as institutional research productivity and quality.…”

Section: Descriptive Analysissupporting

confidence: 88%

Journal of Service Theory and Practice at age 30: past, present and future contributions to service research

Donthu

Kumar

Ranaweera

et al. 2021

JSTP

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PurposeIn 2020, the Journal of Service Theory and Practice (JSTP), previously titled Managing Service Quality, celebrates its 30th anniversary. This study provides a retrospective of the evolution and contribution of the journal to service research by identifying its major trends, research constituents, factors contributing to citations and thematic structure over its 29 active years (1991–2019). The paper concludes by providing directions and ideas for progressing service researchDesign/methodology/approachThe study uses the Scopus database to extract JSTP's bibliographic data. It employs bibliometric methods to study the trends of the journal, such as the citation structure and most-contributing authors, institutions and countries. Bibliographic coupling and keyword co-occurrence analyses are used to study the intellectual structure of the journal. Regression analysis discloses the factors influencing citations of JSTP articles. Factors explaining the citation count of JSTP articles include article age, number of author keywords, article length, title length and number of references.FindingsJSTP's influence has grown significantly in the scientific community, which is evidenced by findings relating to the citation counts, the thematic scope/variety and authorship features of the JSTP papers published during the last 30 years. JSTP attracts publications from around the globe, but most contributions come from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Although JSTP has continuously evolved with new and varied themes, a bibliographic coupling analysis clustered JSTP articles into five major clusters.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitations of the Scopus database may impact the study's results.Originality/valueThis study is the first to provide a comprehensive review of JSTP since its launch. It is useful to the editorial board and other JSTP stakeholders as well as service scholars alike.

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Section: Descriptive Analysissupporting

confidence: 88%

Journal of Service Theory and Practice at age 30: past, present and future contributions to service research

Donthu

Kumar

Ranaweera

et al. 2021

JSTP

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“…Equation (6) states that, given a threshold x thr > 0, we can always find a critical value of the interventionũ 1 such that the stationary knowledge stock of firm 2 (without intervention) is above the threshold, while the knowledge stock of firm 1 (targeted by the intervention) is below the threshold. We can formalize this statement in a simple theorem.…”

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confidence: 99%

Intervention Scenarios to Enhance Knowledge Transfer in a Network of Firms

2020

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We investigate a multi-agent model of firms in a Research & Development (R&D) network. Each firm is characterized by its knowledge stock x i (t), which follows a non-linear dynamics. x i (t) grows with the input from other firms, i.e., by knowledge transfer, and decays otherwise. However, maintaining the interactions that increase knowledge stock is costly for all partners involved. Because of this, firms leave the network whenever their expected knowledge growth is not realized. This, in turn, may cause other firms also to leave the network. The paper discusses two bottom-up intervention scenarios to prevent, reduce, or delay such cascades of firms leaving. The first one is based on the formalism of network controllability, in which driver nodes are identified and subsequently incentivized, by reducing their costs. The second one combines node interventions and network interventions. It proposes the controlled removal of a single firm and the random replacement of firms leaving. This allows to generate small cascades, which prevents the occurrence of large cascades. We find that both approaches successfully mitigate cascades and thus improve the resilience of the R&D network.

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“…Multiple country collaborations tend to create channels that facilitate knowledge dissemination and access to funding for organizations that may not afford high-end technology (Rawlings and McFarland 2011 ; Leone Sciabolazza et al 2020 ). As a result, this increased knowledge dissemination improves the quality of the research outputs (Lee and Bozeman 2005 ; Abramo et al 2009 ; Bikard et al 2015 ; Ceballos et al 2017 ).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The period of insect research in the tropics: a bibliometric analysis

Moshobane

Khoza

Niassy

2021

Int J Trop Insect Sci

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The International Journal of Tropical Insect Science (Int J Trop Insect Sci) is a peer-reviewed journal established in 1980 to promote insect science mainly in the tropics. This study aimed to provide a Bibliometric overview of Int J Trop Insect Sci publications and citations between 2012 and 2020, ending September 2020. A sample of 488 documents extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) was analysed using widely used bioclimatic indicators. The articles were written by 1726 authors. During this period, the most productive authors comprised S Roy, followed by S Ekesi, S Subramanian and M Tamo. The dominant keyword was ‘resistance’, followed by ‘Homoptera'. India took a leading position in Single Country Publications (SCP) while Kenya took the lead in Multiple Country Publications (MCP). Bibliometric analysis reveals vibrant collaboration between African and Western countries and active publication of multi-country authored articles. We conclude that there is an increasing trend for collaboration among different countries on the general topic of insect science. Research in insect science has the potential to impact both academic researchers and practitioners the knowledge use chain. This study will help researchers, journal editors, science policy makers managers, and others working in the biodiversity space and potential research gaps needing for further studies.

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Connecting the dots: implementing and evaluating a network intervention to foster scientific collaboration and productivity

Cited by 19 publications

References 59 publications

Journal of Service Theory and Practice at age 30: past, present and future contributions to service research

Journal of Service Theory and Practice at age 30: past, present and future contributions to service research

Intervention Scenarios to Enhance Knowledge Transfer in a Network of Firms

The period of insect research in the tropics: a bibliometric analysis

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