Paper Info
Title
Citation levels and collaboration within library and information science
Abstract
Collaboration is a major research policy objective, but does it deliver higher quality research? This study uses citation analysis to examine the Web of Science (WoS) Information Science & Library Science subject category (IS&LS) to ascertain whether, in general, more highly cited articles are more highly collaborative than other articles. It consists of two investigations. The first investigation is a longitudinal comparison of the degree and proportion of collaboration in five strata of citation; it found that collaboration in the highest four citation strata (all in the most highly cited 22%) increased in unison over time, whereas collaboration in the lowest citation strata (un-cited articles) remained low and stable. Given that over 40% of the articles were un-cited, it seems important to take into account the differences found between un-cited articles and relatively highly cited articles when investigating collaboration in IS&LS. The second investigation compares collaboration for 35 influential information scientists; it found that their more highly cited articles on average were not more highly collaborative than their less highly cited articles. In summary, although collaborative research is conducive to high citation in general, collaboration has apparently not tended to be essential to the success of current and former elite information scientists. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1002/asi.v60:3
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
library and information science
World Wide Web,Computer science,Elite,Unison,Information science,Citation,Citation analysis,Research policy,Library science,Joint authorship,Impact factor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
60
3
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
32
1.07
20
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan M. Levitt121911.67
Mike Thelwall25497310.16