Collaboration and Citation Analysis Within Social Sciences: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Fields

Maz-Machado, Alexander and Jiménez-Fanjul, Noelia . Collaboration and Citation Analysis Within Social Sciences: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Fields., 2018 In: Scientometrics. IntechOpen, pp. 65-82. [Book chapter]

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English abstract

The present study focuses on a collaboration of a citation analysis of the JCR journals of the categories Demography and Urban Studies indexed in Social Science Citation Index from the period 2000–2016. A total of 64 journals were covered (26 for Demography and 38 for Urban Studies). We found that the percentages of multi-authored documents in both categories are very similar; moreover, the citation distribution is shown to be increasing in both but behaves slightly different in the two samples analysed. It seems to be a relation between the number of citations a document received and the number of authors. Regarding international collaboration, both categories present a similar type of network with densities of the kind of social science networks. Anglo-Saxon countries are the most prolific ones and the biggest collaborators in both networks. Urban Studies shows a relative importance to countries of emerging economies since it indexed more journals in the sample with a wider regional scope.

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: bibliometrics, collaboration, citation, scientific production, social sciences
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Dr Alexander Maz Machado
Date deposited: 15 Dec 2018 15:47
Last modified: 15 Dec 2018 15:47
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/33773

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