Result: How are collaboration and productivity correlated at various career stages of scientists?

Title:
How are collaboration and productivity correlated at various career stages of scientists?
Authors:
ZHIGANG HU, CHAOMEI CHEN, ZEYUAN LIU
Source:
Selected Papers of the 14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), July 15-19, 2013, Vienna, AustriaScientometrics (Print). 101(2):1553-1564
Publisher Information:
Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.
Publication Year:
2014
Physical Description:
print, 1 p
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Information and communication sciences, Sciences de l'information communication, Documentation, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences et techniques communes, Sciences and techniques of general use, Sciences de l'information. Documentation, Information science. Documentation, Sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques. Etude d'ensemble, Library and information science. General aspects, Bibliométrie. Scientométrie. Evaluation, Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation, Sciences de l'information et de la communication, Information and communication sciences, Bibliométrie. Scientométrie, Bibliometrics. Scientometrics, Analyse corrélation, Correlation analysis, Análisis correlación, Coefficient corrélation, Correlation coefficient, Coeficiente correlación, Croissance, Growth, Crecimiento, Recherche scientifique, Scientific research, Investigación científica, Academic career age, Collaboration, Productivity
Document Type:
Conference Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Joint-Institute for the Study of Knowledge Visualization and Scientific Discovery, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Joint-Institute for the Study of Knowledge Visualization and Scientific Discovery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
WISE Lab, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
ISSN:
0138-9130
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Rights:
Copyright 2015 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Sciences of information and communication. Documentation

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Accession Number:
edscal.28892121
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

Collaboration is believed to be influential on researchers' productivity. However, the impact of collaboration relies on factors such as disciplines, collaboration patterns, and collaborators' characters. In addition, at different career stages, such as the growth or the establishment career stages of scientists, collaboration is different in scale and scope, and its effect on productivity varies. In this paper, we study the relationships between collaboration and productivity in four disciplines, Organic Chemistry, Virology, Mathematics and Computer Science. Our studyfound that the productivity is correlated with collaboration in general, but the correlation could be positive or negative on the basis of which aspect of collaboration to measure, i.e., the scale or scope of the collaboration. The correlation becomes stronger as individual scientists progress through various stages of their career. Furthermore, experimental disciplines, such as Organic Chemistry and Virology, have shown stronger correlation coefficients than theoretical ones such as Mathematics and Computer Science.