Exploring the Effects of Data Set Choice on Measuring International Research Collaboration: an Example Using the ACM Digital Library and Microsoft Academic Graph

Nguyen, Ba Xuan; Luczak‐Roesch, Markus; Dinneen, Jesse David

doi:10.48550/arxiv.1905.12834

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“…Consequently, the results from this choice may be different than those obtained if other data sources were used. A study about the effects of data set choice on measuring IRC has shown that different data sources give slightly different outcomes of IRC measurement (Nguyen et al, 2019). Second, this study examined countries other than the CANZUK countries as a single group, and concluded that the importance of this group to the CANZUK countries has decreased over time.…”

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Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations

Nguyen

Dinneen²,

Luczak‐Roesch³

2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Collaborative partners are important in international research collaboration. The research collaborations between four CANZUK countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) are examined to see whether their research connections are different from the research relationships with other countries. This paper measures the affinity index values and analyses the development of research collaborations among CANZUK countries with those between the CANZUK and other countries. The whole counting method and the fractional counting method are applied in this study to compare the differences in the results. The findings show that although the affinity index values of CANZUK countries were decreasing over time, the importance of CANZUK partners to CANZUK countries has likely increased over time at the expense of the other partners' importance. The study also shows the minor differences in results obtained by applying two different counting methods. These differences can be explained by the nature of the counting methods, and the choice to use either one of these two counting methods should be considered in other international research collaboration studies.

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Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations

Nguyen

Dinneen²,

Luczak‐Roesch³

2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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“…Firstly, this study chose the MAG data source to examine the research collaborations of CANZUK countries and the results from this choice may be different than those obtained if other data sources were used. A study about the effects of data set choice on measuring IRC has shown that different data sources give slightly different outcomes of IRC measurement [43]. Therefore, finding which data source is the most suited for IRC measurement and its corresponding statistics of CANZUK's research collaborations should be another focus of IRC studies.…”

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Do research collaborations age like wine? Absolute and relative measures of CANZUK research partnerships’ strength since the 1950s

Nguyen,

Luczak-Roesch,

Dinneen

2024

PLoS ONE

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Although previous studies of today’s globalised and competitive research landscape have mentioned the research collaborations of CANZUK countries (i.e., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom), none have yet studied them in detail. Further, such studies have used different measures of international research collaboration (IRC), resulting in disparate findings. This paper, therefore, analyses the strengths of CANZUK research collaborations, how those collaborations have changed over time, and assesses the effect of three ways of measures on the results (absolute strength, bilateral similarity, and multilateral similarity). We provide a detailed characterisation of the CANZUK research network and its relationships with partner countries, which reveals that the most collaborative CANZUK countries are the UK and Australia, among other findings. We also confirm that many findings differ depending on which measures are used. We offer an explanation of this difference with reference to the nature of the measures (i.e., what they really measure) and make suggestions for suitable measures in future studies depending on their purpose. Finally, we discuss how this study’s findings can be used by research policy makers (in CANZUK and elsewhere) in deciding on research strategy and by researchers in appropriately measuring IRC.

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“…The United States (the USA) is examined in this study. The reason for this choice is because the USA has the highest total number of IRC relationships (Nguyen et al, 2019), and it is also among the top collaborative research partners for many other countries (Kwiek, 2021).…”

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The Effects of Collaborative Country and Discipline on an International Research Collaboration Indicator: The Case of the United States

Nguyen

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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This study explores the extent that international research collaboration indicators vary according to two factors: countries' global economic levels and type of disciplines. The study examines the case of asymmetric co‐authorship relationships between the United States and its collaborative research countries, measured by the affinity index. The study finds that there is no significant interaction between the two factors surveyed. The discipline factor has a main effect on the asymmetric co‐authorship relationships. No main effect of the country factor categorised by economic level is found, after allowing for the discipline factor. This study contributes to the social science research on the impact of factors on co‐authorship in international research collaboration measurement indicators.

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Exploring the Effects of Data Set Choice on Measuring International Research Collaboration: an Example Using the ACM Digital Library and Microsoft Academic Graph

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Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations

Closed Shop or Collaborative Hub? An Analysis of the Partners' Importance in CANZUK Countries' Research Collaborations

Do research collaborations age like wine? Absolute and relative measures of CANZUK research partnerships’ strength since the 1950s

The Effects of Collaborative Country and Discipline on an International Research Collaboration Indicator: The Case of the United States

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