Giant collaboration in astronomy knowledge production at international level

Osareh, Farideh Giant collaboration in astronomy knowledge production at international level., 2006 . In International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France), May 10 - 12, 2006. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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The aim of this article is to investigate giant collaboration in astronomy articles indexed in ScienceDriect database during 2000-2004. The collaboration coefficient (CC) will be calculated and international collaboration will be studied. The collaboration coefficient will be compared with the number of authors per papers to determine the development of collaboration in this article. Some of findings of this study are: 419 astronomy articles with 2761 co-author name occurrences were in ScienceDirect during 2000-2004 indicating a collaboration mean of 6.6 authors per paper. All 419 articles were published in 37 countries. Bradford’s law was confirmed and 10 giant collaborating articles having 59-130 co-authors (average collaborators of 94.4 per article) were identified. 10% of the articles have been produced with large teams including 12 to 130 authors. The collaboration coefficient was equal to 0.494 in this study, which means the number of multi authored papers could be considerable. The analysis showed that the CC for astronomy papers has grown from 0.385 in 2000 to 0.534 in 2004. Considering international collaborative occurrences it was shown that USA with 139 (24%) collaborative occurrences ranked first among the 37 countries. France, UK, Italy and Japan ranked second to fifth in this study according to the percentages. While, considering Collaboration Coefficient, China, Russia, India and Spain performed much better.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: astronomy international collaboration bibliometrics
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
Depositing user: Heather G Morrison
Date deposited: 19 Apr 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:03
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7438

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