Liang, LM; Liu, JW; Rousseau, R. "Name order patterns of graduate candidates and supervisors in Chinese publications: A case study of three major Chinese universities " Scientometrics 61(1) p.3-18, 2004.

[Eugene Garfield]

Ronald Rousseau : ronald.rousseau at khbo.be

TITLE:          Name order patterns of graduate candidates and
                supervisors in Chinese publications: A case study of three
                major Chinese universities (Article, English)

AUTHOR:         Liang, LM; Liu, JW; Rousseau, R

SOURCE:         SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (1). 2004. p.3-18 KLUWER ACADEMIC
                PUBL, DORDRECHT

SEARCH TERM(S):  CRONIN B  rauth; GARFIELD E  rauth; ZUCKERMAN H  rauth;
                 SCIENTOMETR*  rwork

ABSTRACT:       Studying three Chinese major universities of different
type, this article attempts to validate earlier results related to
authors' name order in papers co-authored by graduate candidates and
their supervisors. Candidates for the doctoral degree as well as the
master's degree are considered.

Defining the g-ratio as the fraction of co-authored publications where
the graduate student's name precedes that of the supervisor's we obtain
the following results. 1) Generally, master's level g-ratios are smaller
than the corresponding doctoral level g-ratios. 2) The three doctoral g-
ratio time series have a common characteristic: they tend to a limiting
target value of somewhat more than 80%. The master's time series of the
three universities extend themselves in parallel with the doctoral time
series. 3) The g-ratio of collaborative papers related to the
dissertation is higher than the g-ratio of collaborative papers not
related to the dissertation. This is true on the doctoral level as well
as on the master's level. 4) Different disciplines have different g-
ratios, representing disciplinary customs in graduate candidate-
supervisor collaboration, the highest g-ratio in the doctoral case
occurring in biology (except for Tsinghua University that does not offer
courses in biology). 5) There exist only small differences between the g-
ratios of different kinds of universities. 6) In recent years, the same
candidate-supervisor collaboration patterns exist in international
publications as in domestic ones. The fact that the doctoral g-ratios of
all three universities are as high as 80% reflects a universal regularity
in the structure of scientific collaboration between doctoral candidates
and their supervisors in China.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Rousseau, KHBO, Dept Ind Sci & Technol, Zeedijk 101,
                B-8400 Oostende, Belgium