BACKGROUND Nigeria is home to more people living with HIV than any other country in the world, except South Africa and India-where an estimated 2.9 million [1.7 million - 4.2 million] people were living with the virus in 2005. A systematic assessment of recent HIV/AIDS research output from Nigeria is not available. Without objective information about the current deficiencies and strengths in th...

Is cognitive science interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary? We contribute to this debate by examining the authorship structure and topic similarity of contributions Cognitive Science Society from 2000 2019. Our analysis focuses on graph theoretic features co-authorship network—edge density, transitivity, maximum subgraph size—as well as clustering within space scientific topics. also combine s...

BACKGROUND Although researchers have worked in collaboration since the origins of modern science and the publication of the first scientific journals in the eighteenth century, this phenomenon has acquired exceptional importance in the last several decades. Since the mid-twentieth century, new knowledge has been generated from within an ever-growing network of investigators, working cooperative...

This thesis investigates the formation, evolution and performance of collaboration networks, with an emphasis on those networks in which every link-formation event involves a knowledge flow. Our work can be conceptually divided in three phases. First, we perform an extended empirical analysis of two prominent examples of such systems – namely R&D and co-authorship networks – to determine the mi...

BACKGROUND Authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. OBJECTIVE To document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. METHODS An anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a New Zealand university. RESULTS 43 academics responded, a res...

I n today’s competitive academic climate, academic medical educators are under constant pressure to generate scholarship for promotion and job security. Similarly, for undergraduate medical students, research publications are viewed as valued assets for gaining acceptance into quality postgraduate medical programs. Not surprisingly, one of the most pragmatic routes to glean this highly desired ...

As an interdisciplinary team that creates interactive art installations, we discuss the concepts of authorship in context of the creation of two interactive art installations. In our experience, the continually evolving question of authorship raises questions about joint authorship, or how the people who have created the piece declare authorship; as well as shared authorship, or how the viewers...

This article analyzes the collaboration trends, authorship and keywords of all research articles published in the Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Comparing the articles between two 10-year periods, namely, 1988–1997 and 1998–2007, the three-fold objectives are to analyze the shifts in (a) authors’ collaboration trends (b) top authors, their affiliati...

Collaboration and competition are increasing both within and between research organizations, leading to new questions for research management and science policy. Increasing collaboration is reflected by a growing average number of coauthors in all fields (Hicks and Katz, 1996; Wuchty et al., 2007). Sometimes this is seen as a perverse effect of extremely stretched competition, and not so much a...