Does collaboration bring high-impact studies? A preliminary study

Chao Lu; Yi Bu; Chenwei Zhang; Ying Ding; Vetle I. Torvik; Chengzhi Zhang

doi:10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401142

Does collaboration bring high-impact studies? A preliminary study

Chao Lu, Yi Bu, Chenwei Zhang, Ying Ding, Vetle I. Torvik, Chengzhi Zhang

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Abstract

Team formation becomes important when scientific collaborations become common and important to scholars. This study initially tries to understand how research team size may influence the impact of a study measured by number of citations. Thus, publications in the biology domain are specifically investigated by correlation analysis between team size and scientific impact. The weak correlation suggests that larger team size can positively increase the impact of scientific publications on average; however, it cannot literally bring more highly cited articles.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	750-751
Number of pages	2
Journal	Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Volume	54
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401142
State	Published - Jan 2017

Keywords

scientific collaboration
scientific impact
team size

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Library and Information Sciences

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