Does collaboration bring high‐impact studies? A preliminary study | Zendy

Lu Chao | Zendy; Bu Yi | Zendy; Zhang Chenwei | Zendy; Ding Ying | Zendy; Torvik Vetle I. | Zendy; Zhang Chengzhi | Zendy

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Does collaboration bring high‐impact studies? A preliminary study

Author(s) -

Lu Chao,

Bu Yi,

Zhang Chenwei,

Ding Ying,

Torvik Vetle I.,

Zhang Chengzhi

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

proceedings of the association for information science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193

H-Index - 14

ISSN - 2373-9231

DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401142

Subject(s) - domain (mathematical analysis) , psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis

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.

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