Influencing scientists’ collaboration and productivity patterns through new institutions: University research centers and scientific and technical human capital

Ponomariov, Branco; Boardman, P. Craig

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2010.02.013

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“…They noted a general positive association between the cardinality of a paper's author set and the citation impact and peer quality of the contribution. Other studies have also corroborated that research collaboration has a positive influence on the number of documents (Ponomariov and Boardman 2010) and the number of citations (Sooryamoorthy 2009). …”

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Relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations: a case study in Spanish computer science production in 2000–2009

2012

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This paper analyzes the relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations of computer science research activity. It analyzes the number of documents and citations and how they vary by number of authors. They are also analyzed (according to author set cardinality) under different circumstances, that is, when documents are written in different types of collaboration, when documents are published in different document types, when documents are published in different computer science subdisciplines, and, finally, when documents are published by journals with different impact factor quartiles. To investigate the above relationships, this paper analyzes the publications listed in the Web of Science and produced by active Spanish university professors between 2000 and 2009, working in the computer science field. Analyzing all documents, we show that the highest percentage of documents are published by three authors, whereas single-authored documents account for the lowest percentage. By number of citations, there is no positive association between the author cardinality and citation impact. Statistical tests show that documents written by two authors receive more citations per document and year than documents published by more authors. In contrast, results do not show statistically significant differences between documents published by two authors and one author. The research findings suggest that international collaboration results on average in publications with higher citation rates than national and institutional collaborations. We also find differences regarding citation rates between journals and conferences, across different computer science subdisciplines and journal quartiles as expected. Finally, our impression is that the collaborative level (number of authors per document) will increase in the coming years, and documents published by three or four authors will be the trend in computer science literature.

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Relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations: a case study in Spanish computer science production in 2000–2009

2012

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“…3, especially in Natural Sciences. Ponomariov and Boardman (2010) studied the impact that affiliating with a research center has on an individual researcher's production. They found that affiliation with large-scale and mature university research centers increased an author's cross-discipline and inter-institutional collaboration.…”

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Impelling research productivity and impact through collaboration: a scientometric case study of knowledge management

Ceballos

Fangmeyer

Galeano

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Knowledge Management Research & Practice

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A case study for impelling university research productivity and impact through collaboration is presented. Scientometric results support the hypothesis that a knowledge management model increased research collaboration and thereby boosted a university's number of publications and citations. Results come from fifteen years of data at a Mexican university with 2400 researchers who produced 24,000 works in fifteen research disciplines. These data are treated with social network visualizations and algorithms to identify patterns of collaboration and clustering, as well as with normalizations to make disciplines comparable and to verify increasing citation impact. The knowledge management model implemented in the study may be a costeffective way for universities to intensify collaboration and improve research performance.

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“…Findings on this issue are mixed. Some studies suggest that the increase in a researcher's social capital associated with joining an interdisciplinary research centre has a positive impact on his or her human capital as measured by the number of publications (Ponomariov and Boardman 2010). Others argue that scholars early in their career can risk losing out on advancement when they do not follow conventional career paths, such as publishing in traditional discipline-specific journals (Metzger and Zare 1999;Pfirman and Begg 2012).…”

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Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximity

Rekers

Hansen

2014

Science and Public Policy

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Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximityRekers, Josephine V.; Hansen, Teis General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractContributions on interdisciplinary research have so far focused on barriers to such collaborations and strategies for overcoming these. In this paper, we propose that a geographical perspective contributes to understand the formation of successful interdisciplinary research collaborations. The empirical analysis of a centre for clinical cancer research illustrates the importance of considering the role of geographical proximity to collaborators and decision makers, as well as the co-location of excellent research groups within different fields, in overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary research. We suggest that policies aimed at stimulating lasting interdisciplinary research collaborations should take the distance between collaborators into account. AcknowledgementsThe data for this case study was collected with Elena Zukauskaite (CIRCLE, Lund University). This research is part of a larger research project, "Organisational change for innovation and institutional entrepreneurship in health care systems" (ICIS), with partners in Finland (Sotarauta and colleagues) and Norway (Isaksen and Karlsen). The authors thank Ron Boschma and two anonymous referees for valuable comments. AbstractContributions on interdisciplinary research have so far focused on barriers to such collaborations and strategies for overcoming these. In this paper, we propose that a geographical perspective contributes to understand the formation of successful interdisciplinary research collaborations. The empirical analysis of a centre for clinical cancer research illustrates the importance of considering the role of geographical proximity to collaborators and decision-makers, as well as the co-location of excellent research groups within different fields, in overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary research. We suggest that policies aimed at stimulating lasting interdisciplinary research collaborations should take the distance between collaborators into account.

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Influencing scientists’ collaboration and productivity patterns through new institutions: University research centers and scientific and technical human capital

Cited by 169 publications

References 31 publications

Relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations: a case study in Spanish computer science production in 2000–2009

Relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations: a case study in Spanish computer science production in 2000–2009

Impelling research productivity and impact through collaboration: a scientometric case study of knowledge management

Interdisciplinary research and geography: Overcoming barriers through proximity

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