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Abstract | ||
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Research produced through international collaboration is often more highly cited than other work, but is it also more novel? Using measures of conventionality and novelty developed by Uzzi et al. (2013) and replicated by Boyack and Klavans (2013), we test for novelty and conventionality in international research collaboration. Many studies have shown that international collaboration is more highly cited than national or sole-authored papers. Others have found that coauthored papers are more novel. Scholars have suggested that diverse groups have a greater chance of producing creative work. As such, we expected to find that international collaboration is also more novel. Using data from Web of Science and Scopus in 2005, we failed to show that international collaboration tends to produce more novel articles. In fact, international collaboration appeared to produce less novel and more conventional research. Transaction costs and the limits of global communication may be suppressing novelty, while an audience effect may be responsible for higher citation rates. Closer examination across the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as examination of six scientific specialties further illuminates the interplay of conventionality and novelty in work produced by international research teams. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2018 | arXiv: Social and Information Networks | Transaction cost,Creative work,Sociology,Public relations,Citation,Scopus,International research,Novelty,Audience effect,The arts |
DocType | Volume | Citations |
Journal | abs/1804.09070 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 13 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline S. Wagner | 1 | 409 | 26.07 |
| Travis A. Whetsell | 2 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Satyam Mukherjee | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |