Do types of collaboration change citation? Collaboration and citation patterns of South African science publications

Sooryamoorthy, R.

doi:10.1007/s11192-009-2126-z

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“…These studies' findings are often not generalizable, however because they are limited to a single country (Sooryamoorthy, 2009), a single institution (Gazni & Didegah, 2010), a single field of study (Leimu & Koricheva, 2005a&b;Haslam et al, 2008) or a specific journal (Bornmann, Schier, Marx, & Daniel, 2012). Using correlation and regression tests, positive correlations between citation counts and the number of authors have been found (Gazni & Didegah, 2010;Sooryamoorthy, 2009; Leimu & Koricheva, 2005a&b;Haslam et al, 2008) but not the extent to which the number of authors contributes to increased citations. The differences between the results of previous studies might be due to the differing samples of publications used and disciplinary differences in particular.…”

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“…These factors are at least to some extent under the control of the authors and so it would be useful to know whether researchers should pay attention to them to ensure that their research has the greatest possible impact. Research collaboration has been frequently analysed (Sooryamoorthy, 2009) and the other factors have also been examined (Zhao, 2010;Gazni, 2011) but they have not been examined simultaneously for multiple research fields using an optimal statistical model. This is an important omission because non-simultaneous tests may identify apparently important factors that have no effect when other factors are controlled.…”

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“…This has the limitation that the difference may be spurious in the sense of being caused by factors other than the ones investigated. International collaboration seems to be particularly beneficial for small institutions (Goldfinch, Dale, & DeRouen, 2003) rather than big institutions (Gazni & Didegah, 2010).Institutional collaboration, which involves researchers from different institutions, also associates with higher citation impact (Gazni & Didegah, 2010;Sooryamoorthy, 2009;Narin & Whitlow, 1990). These studies are also geographically and institutionally limited and use a simple correlation test for an association between institutional collaboration and citation counts, and so it may be that other factors explain the increased citations better than institutional collaboration.…”

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Which factors help authors produce the highest impact research? Collaboration, journal and document properties

Didegah

Thelwall

2013

Journal of Informetrics

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This study assesses whether eleven factors associate with higher impact research: individual, institutional and international collaboration; journal and reference impacts; abstract readability; reference and keyword totals; paper, abstract and title lengths. Authors may have some control over these factors and hence this information may help them to conduct and publish higher impact research. These factors have been previously researched but with partially conflicting findings. A simultaneous assessment of these eleven factors for Biology & Biochemistry, Chemistry and Social Sciences used a single negative binomial-logit hurdle model estimating the percentage change in the mean citation counts per unit of increase or decrease in the predictor variables. The journal Impact Factor was found to significantly associate with increased citations in all three areas. The impact and the number of cited references and their average citation impact also significantly associate with higher article citation impact. Individual and international teamwork give a citation advantage in Biology & Biochemistry and Chemistry but inter-institutional teamwork is not important in any of the three subject areas. Abstract readability is also not significant or of no practical significance. Among the article size features, abstract length significantly associates with increased citations but the number of keywords, title length and paper length are insignificant or of no practical significance. In summary, at least some aspects of collaboration, journal and document properties significantly associate with higher citations. The results provide new and particularly strong statistical evidence that the authors should consider publishing in high impact journals, ensure that they do not omit relevant references, engage in the widest possible team working, when appropriate, and write extensive abstracts. A new finding is that whilst is seems to be useful to collaborate and to collaborate internationally, there seems to be no particular need to collaborate with other institutions within the same country. IntroductionDuring an academic career, scholars make numerous choices about the type of research to conduct, how to present their research, and where to submit it for publication. It seems logical that researchers should aim to conduct the highest possible impact research in order to make the most of their talents and opportunities. Whilst the key decisions for this aim are likely to be specific to the topics researched, there are some more peripheral factors that are nevertheless relevant and that academics may also need to consider in order to maximise the impact of their efforts.Citation counts are widely acknowledged as the main scientific research impact indicator and empirical studies have been carried out to seek associations between citation counts and various objective and easily measurable properties of research. These include the impact of the publishing journal (Boyack & Klavans, 2005), collaboration (Gazni & Didegah, 2010)...

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Which factors help authors produce the highest impact research? Collaboration, journal and document properties

Didegah

Thelwall

2013

Journal of Informetrics

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“…This will have a positive impact on the growth of the discipline and on the economy of South Africa. Evidence suggests that publications originating from collaboration yield relatively more citations and have more impact than sole-authored publications [24][25][26][27][28].…”

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Collaboration in South African Engineering Research

Sooryamoorthy

2011

The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering

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The production of scientific publications in engineering in South Africa has expanded over the last three decades. Because engineering is an important science, this expansion has implications for the growth and development of the economy. Drawing on a sample range of years of the publications stored in the ISI Web of Knowledge, the engineering publications of South Africans for a 30-year period from are analysed. This analysis shows that the production of scientific publications in engineering by South African researchers has increased during the analysed period; that the number of researchers per publication has grown; that the number of countries collaborating with South Africa has increased; and that the number of sole-authored papers has decreased. Domestic collaboration (between researchers within South Africa) has decreased, while international collaboration has grown considerably. The key objective of the paper is to find out whether the production of publications is related to the level of collaboration, and to see how collaboration can be regressed from other known variables. It is clear from the study that collaboration is a decisive factor in the production of scientific publications in engineering in South Africa.

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“…Many studies (Sonnenwald, 2007;Wagner & Leydesdorff, 2005) examined the growth of international scholarly collaboration and tried to understand the patterns of it. It is observed in the literature that researchers investigate different dimensions of scholarly collaboration such as, different countries (Anuradha & Urs, 2007;Kim, 2005; Perianes-Rodríguez, OlmedaGómez, Antonia Ovalle-Perandones, Chinchilla-Rodríguez, & Moya-Anegón, 2011), specific fields (Ma & Guan, 2005;Yan, Ding, & Zhu, 2010), and impact of the publications (Persson, Glänzel, & Danell, 2004;Sooryamoorthy, 2009). There are also some studies that examined these dimensions together (Arunachalam, 2000;Zhao & Guan, 2011).…”

Section: Scholarly Collaborationmentioning

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