Title :
Exploring the Relationship between Research Impact and Collaborations for Information Science
Author :
Abbasi, Alireza ; Hossain, Liaquat ; Owen, Christine
Author_Institution :
Centre for Complex Syst. Res., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
In this study, we examine whether internal and external collaboration (considering institutional and national levels) among scientific associates with research impact relates to research performance. We extract data from Scopus, a bibliometric database, searching for journal publications having ´information science´ phrase in their title or keywords or abstracts and retrieve totally 4,579 publications. Spearman correlation rank test is used to examine the hypotheses. Analysis of collected data shows that publication´s impact is significantly and positively associated with collaboration indicators based on authors´ affiliations. However, internal collaborations at both institutional and national levels show stronger associations with publications´ impact than external collaborations do.
Keywords :
bibliographic systems; database management systems; information science; publishing; ´information science´; bibliometric database; collaboration indicators; external collaboration; information science; institutional levels; internal collaboration; journal publications; national levels; research collaboration; research impact; Collaboration; Correlation; Data mining; Databases; Educational institutions; Information science; Productivity; Scientific collaboration network; co-authorship analysis; institutional and national level analysis; internal and external collaborations; research impact;
Conference_Titel :
System Science (HICSS), 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1925-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2012.664
