[Sigmetrics] The power–law relationship between citation-based performance and collaboration in articles in management journals: A scale-independent approach

[Sylvan Katz]

Ronda-Pupo, Guillermo Armando, & Katz, J. Sylvan. (2015). Earlier Preview

The power–law relationship between citation-based performance and 
collaboration in articles in management journals: A scale-independent 
approach. Journal of the Association for Information Science and 
Technology, doi: 10.1002/asi.23575

Abstract

The objective of this article is to determine if academic collaboration 
is associated with the citation-based performance of articles that are 
published in management journals. We analyzed 127,812 articles published 
between 1988 and 2013 in 173 journals on the ISI Web of Science in the 
“management” category. Collaboration occurred in approximately 60% of 
all articles. A power–law relationship was found between citation-based 
performance and journal size and collaboration patterns. The number of 
citations expected by collaborative articles increases 2^1.89 or 3.7 
times when the number of collaborative articles published in a journal 
doubles. The number of citations expected by noncollaborative articles 
only increases 2^1.35 or 2.55 times if a journal publishes double the 
number of noncollaborative articles. The Matthew effect is stronger for 
collaborative than for noncollaborative articles. Scale-independent 
indicators increase the confidence in the evaluation of the impact of 
the articles published in management journals.


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