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The power–law relationship between citation‐based performance and collaboration in articles in management journals: A scale‐independent approach
Author(s) -
RondaPupo Guillermo Armando,
Katz J. Sylvan
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.23575
Subject(s) - citation , citation analysis , citation impact , scale (ratio) , bibliometrics , computer science , library science , geography , cartography
The objective of this article is to determine if academic collaboration is associated with the citation‐based performance of articles that are published in management journals. We analyzed 127,812 articles published between 1988 and 2013 in 173 journals on the ISI W eb of S cience in the “management” category. Collaboration occurred in approximately 60% of all articles. A power–law relationship was found between citation‐based performance and journal size and collaboration patterns. The number of citations expected by collaborative articles increases 2 1.89 or 3.7 times when the number of collaborative articles published in a journal doubles. The number of citations expected by noncollaborative articles only increases 2 1.35 or 2.55 times if a journal publishes double the number of noncollaborative articles. The M atthew effect is stronger for collaborative than for noncollaborative articles. Scale‐independent indicators increase the confidence in the evaluation of the impact of the articles published in management journals.