International collaboration and counting inflation in the assessment of national research productivity

Huang, Mu‐Hsuan; Lin, Chi‐Shiou

doi:10.1002/meet.14504701118

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“…This type of financing is important as it introduces the Brazilian student or researcher to groups abroad, it works as a seed from which collaboration can grow, if it does not already exist. Collaboration also improves the quality of future generations of researchers, which is important for a developing country (Huang and Lin 2010 ). This sets the need for Brazilian agencies to look at their financing procedures to improve these indicators.…”

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International collaboration in Brazilian science: financing and impact

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The study of international collaborations can help in understanding the benefits of such relationships and aid in developing national financing policies. In this paper, the international collaboration of Brazilian scientists was studied using SciVal ® and Incites ® database, looking at its effect on the universities, financing agencies and different areas of knowledge and research topic clusters. Cluster and principal component analyses of scientometric data were carried out. While the results confirmed known knowledge that international collaboration increases impact, this study shows that Brazilian researchers are contributing to prominent research topics worldwide, in all areas of knowledge. This finding is contrary to several points of view that identify Brazil as a regional and not an international partner in science. Important also to note the impact of Brazilian authors in international collaboration that is well above the world mean. The collaboration of Brazil with foreign partners brings benefits for both sides, creating the opportunity of Brazilian research access to financing from international agencies. Increases in measures of impact are also seen for both sides. Foreign partners likewise benefit from higher impact factors in the same topic cluster, when collaborating with Brazilian partners. Publishing open access in high impact journals is fundamental for maintaining Brazilian science at the forefront.

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“…To compare whether the result would differ significantly, further studies of LIS papers using multiple counting methods should be conducted. Recently, Huang and Lin (2010) analyzed a large set of physics journal articles and tested the effects of five author counting methods on country ranks. The researchers found that while small variations in rankings existed for certain clusters of countries, the counting methods did not greatly affect the country ranks.…”

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International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980-2008

Sin

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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International collaborative papers are increasingly common in journals of many disciplines. These types of papers are often cited more frequently. To identify the coauthorship trends within Library and Information Science (LIS), this study analyzed 7,489 papers published in six leading publications (ARIST, IP&M, JAMIA, JASIST, MISQ, and Scientometrics) over the last three decades. Logistic regression tested the relationships between citations received and seven factors: authorship type, author's subregion, country income level, publication year, number of authors, document type, and journal title. The main authorship type since 1995 was national collaboration. It was also the dominant type for all publications studied except ARIST, and for all regions except Africa. For citation counts, the logistic regression analysis found all seven factors were significant. Papers that included international collaboration, Northern European authors, and authors in high-income nations had higher odds of being cited more. Papers from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Southern Europe had lower odds than North American papers. As discussed in the bibliometric literature, Merton's Matthew Effect sheds light on the differential citation counts based on the authors' subregion. This researcher proposes geographies of invisible colleagues and a geographic scope effect to further investigate the relationships between author geographic affiliation and citation impact.

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“…The increasing average number of authors per publication and the growth of international collaboration in the sciences pose a challenge as to how to attribute credit at the individual, institution and country levels (Cronin, Snyder, & Atkins, 2001; Gauffriau, Larsen, Maye, Roulin‐Perriard, & Ins, 2008; Huang & Lin. 2010; Kao, 2009; Pravdić & Oluić‐Vukovic, 1986, 1991). Although it has been shown that different counting methods produce different rankings in publication performance, a consensus has not yet emerged.…”

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Inequality of publishing performance and international collaboration in physics

Huang

Tang

Chen

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Using a database of 1.4 million papers indexed byWeb of Science, we examined the global trends in publication inequality and international collaboration in physics. The publication output and citations received by authors hosted in each country were taken into account. Although inequality decreased over time, further progress toward equality has somewhat abated in recent years. The skewedness of the global distribution in publication output was shown to be correlated with article impact, that is, the inequality is more significant in articles of higher impact. It was also observed that, despite the trend toward more equalitarian distribution, scholarly participation in physics is still determined by a select group. Particularly noteworthy has been China's rapid growth in publication outputs and a gradual improvement in its impact. Finally, the data also suggested regional differences in scientific collaboration. A distinctively high concentration of transnational collaboration and publication performance was found among EU countries.

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International collaboration and counting inflation in the assessment of national research productivity

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

International collaboration in Brazilian science: financing and impact

International collaboration in Brazilian science: financing and impact

International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980-2008

Inequality of publishing performance and international collaboration in physics

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