Visualizing Research Collaboration in Statistical Science: A Scientometric Perspective

Das, Prabir Kumar Visualizing Research Collaboration in Statistical Science: A Scientometric Perspective. Library Philosophy and Practice (ISSN : 1522-0222), 2019, n. 3039. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Using Sankhyā – The Indian Journal of Statistics as a case, present study aims to identify scholarly collaboration pattern of statistical science based on research articles appeared during 2008 to 2017. This is an attempt to visualize and quantify statistical science research collaboration in multiple dimensions by exploring the co-authorship data. It investigates chronological variations of collaboration pattern, nodes and links established among the affiliated institutions and countries of all contributing authors. The study also examines the impact of research collaboration on citation scores. Findings reveal steady influx of statistical publications with clear tendency towards collaborative ventures, of which double-authored publications dominate. Small team of 2 to 3 authors is responsible for production of majority of collaborative research, whereas mega-authored communications are quite low. Country- wise mapping of research contributions revels that, top five countries have contributed about 66% of the total authors and about 55% of the total affiliated institutions. Indicates few numbers of countries has substantial participation to statistical science research, while large majority has nominal contributions. Of which, USA contributes the most (31%) followed by India, Canada, France and Japan. Result therefore indicates presence of ‘sort of ‘clique’ with dominant foreign coauthors. Further analysis reveals that, unilateral collaboration dominates at the country level whereas at the institution level bilateral collaboration dominates - implies authors from two different institutions of same country are key contributors of this specialty. Indian Statistical Institute (native institute of the source journal) found to be the most productive institution. Study therefore signifies skewed distribution of co-authorship with limited evidence of cross-country collaboration. Furthermore, Google Scholar citation analysis showed that collaboration has significant positive influence on the article impact.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Bibliometrics, Research collaboration,Collaboration mapping, Collaboration Density, Statistical science research, Sankhyā, Indian Journal of Statistics, Google scholar Citation
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AB. Information theory and library theory.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user: Mr Prabir Kumar Das
Date deposited: 25 Sep 2019 06:57
Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 06:57
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/38988

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