[Sigmetrics] Bilateral and Multilateral Coauthorship and Citation Impact

[gopal at annauniv.edu]

Dear All,

I have been reading the posts and some of the papers have been very useful.

The one in the trace and a paper by Prof. Loet Leydesdorff, Cyberneticist
are my choice in the recent past.

Quick questions:

Is there a criteria to avoid the "Law of Fishes" i.e Big Fish swallows the
Small Fish in the way we are evolving the metrics ?

Please advise.

Warmest Regards




Gopal T V
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PS: I hope citing posts by another member of this list is fine.
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> Dear colleagues
>
> We have recently published a paper on: "Bilateral and Multilateral
> Coauthorship and Citation Impact: Patterns in UK and US International
> Collaboration" in Frontiers in Research Metrics & Analytics
>
> International collaboration makes up an increasing, high citation-impact
> share of research output, but the UK’s collaboration with key partners
> is
> threatened by its decision to leave the EU. Data show that about 85% of US
> and UK international collaboration is with only one or two partners,
> usually among other “leading” research economies. Although highly
> multinational research (10 or more authors) is growing more rapidly than
> total research output, it actually remains scarce (about 1% of all
> collaboration) among the established research economies. Analysis also
> shows that the “citation bonus” contributed by international
> collaboration
> is in fact both specific and limited; it should, therefore, be interpreted
> with some care. For example, citation impact trends look different for
> two-country and multi-country collaborations involving the same countries.
> Impact also increases but then plateaus with increasing numbers of
> partners. Further, we find that massively multinational papers are of such
> a different kind that we suggest they should be excluded from standard
> citation analysis.
>
> The paper is avalable at  https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2018.00012
>
> Jonathan Adams
> Director, ISI (a part of Clarivate Analytics)
> Visitng Professor, King's College London
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