Investigating different types of research collaboration and citation impact: a case study of Harvard University's publications

Ali Gazni; Fereshteh Didegah

doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0343-8

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 87: Issue 2

Investigating different types of research collaboration and citation impact: a case study of Harvard University's publications

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Ali Gazni

Ali Gazni Islamic World Science Citation Center, Shiraz, Iran, ali.gazni@isc.gov.ir
Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

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Fereshteh Didegah

Fereshteh Didegah MLIS, Research Department of Islamic World Science Citation Center, Shiraz, Iran

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Pages:: 251–265

Online Publication Date:: 25 Jan 2011

Publication Date:: 01 May 2011

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0343-8

Keywords:: Collaboration patterns; Harvard University; Citation impact

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Abstract

This study aims to investigate the influence of different patterns of collaboration on the citation impact of Harvard University's publications. Those documents published by researchers affiliated with Harvard University in WoS from 2000–2009, constituted the population of the research which was counted for 124,937 records. Based on the results, only 12% of Harvard publications were single author publications. Different patterns of collaboration were investigated in different subject fields. In all 22 examined fields, the number of co-authored publications is much higher than single author publications. In fact, more than 60% of all publications in each field are multi-author publications. Also, the normalized citation per paper for co-authored publications is higher than that of single author publications in all fields. In addition, the largest number of publications in all 22 fields were also published through inter-institutional collaboration and were as a result of collaboration among domestic researchers and not international ones. In general, the results of the study showed that there was a significant positive correlation between the number of authors and the number of citations in Harvard publications. In addition, publications with more number of institutions have received more number of citations, whereas publications with more number of foreign collaborators were not much highly cited.

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