Does collaboration bring high-impact studies? A preliminary study.

Authors :: Lu, Chao
Bu, Yi
Zhang, Chenwei
Ding, Ying
Torvik, Vetle I.
Zhang, Chengzhi
Source :: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science & Technology. 2017, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p750-751. 2p.
Publication Year :: 2017
Abstract: ABSTRACT Team formation becomes important when scientific collaborations become common and important to scholars. This study initially tries to understand how research team size may influence the impact of a study measured by number of citations. Thus, publications in the biology domain are specifically investigated by correlation analysis between team size and scientific impact. The weak correlation suggests that larger team size can positively increase the impact of scientific publications on average; however, it cannot literally bring more highly cited articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects :: *SCHOLARS
*SOCIAL impact
*CITATION analysis
*STATISTICAL correlation
*SOCIAL influence

Language :: English
ISSN :: 23739231
Volume :: 54
Issue :: 1
Database :: Academic Search Index
Journal :: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science & Technology
Publication Type :: Conference
Accession number :: 125841196
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401142