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Does international collaboration yield a higher citation potential for US scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary Journals?
Author(s) -
Rousseau Ronald,
Ding Jielan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23565
Subject(s) - publishing , citation , library science , statement (logic) , yield (engineering) , bibliometrics , political science , computer science , physics , law , thermodynamics
Generally, multicountry papers receive more citations than single‐country ones. In this contribution, we examine if this rule also applies to A merican scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary journals. Concretely, we compare the citations received by A merican scientists in N ature , S cience , and the P roceedings of the N ational A cademy of S ciences of the U nited S tates of A merica ( PNAS ). It is shown that, statistically, A merican scientists publishing in N ature and S cience do not benefit from international collaboration. This statement also holds for communicated submissions, but not for direct and for contributed submissions, to PNAS .