Co-authorship networks, an important type of social networks, have been studied extensively from various angles such as degree distribution analysis, social community extraction and social entity ranking. Most of the previous studies consider the co-authorship relation between two authors as a collaboration. In this paper, we introduce a novel and interesting “supportiveness” measure on co-auth...

BACKGROUND Co-authorship is one of the most tangible forms of research collaboration. A co-authorship network is a social network in which the authors through participation in one or more publication through an indirect path have linked to each other. The present research using the social network analysis studied co-authorship network of 681 articles published in Journal of Research in Medical ...

Introduction: The increasing number of global health initiatives have contributed to improving access to health services and building knowledge platforms. However, the distribution of activities and knowledge produced has been uneven. To scope the scientific output in global health, publications from 2008-2017 were reviewed to identify major players, assess the extent of involv...

Research output in the tourism field has grown enormously in the last decade and this growth has led to the establishment of new networks of researchers collaborating on a variety of projects. The purpose of this paper is to provide a new approach to the study of collaboration in the tourism field by using bibliometrics and social network analysis to examine co-authorship patterns in Australia ...

Introduction and literature review Co-authorship network, a proxy of research collaboration, reveals the collaboration patterns and the determining factors through social network analysis perspective, with nodes representing authors and links representing co-authorships (Ortega, 2014; Yan & Ding, 2009). If we know what mechanisms push the evolution of coauthorship network, we could predict whic...

Collaboration patterns of scholars have been the subject of many studies. This paper investigates the collaboration patterns of the Turkish scholars’ publications within the citation indexes. Turkey’s contribution to the world’s scientifi c literature has increased signifi cantly during the recent years. It is important to understand the collaboration types in scholarly communication in order t...

The Turing Award is recognized as the most influential and prestigious award in field of computer science (CS). With rise science, a large amount bibliographic data has been analyzed an attempt to understand hidden mechanism scientific evolution. These include analysis Nobel Prize, including physics, chemistry, medicine, etc. In this article, we extract analyze 72 laureates from complete data, ...

Scientists of many countries in which English is not the primary language routinely use a variety of manuscript preparation, correction or editing services, a practice that is openly endorsed by many journals and scientific institutions. These services vary tremendously in their scope; at one end there is simple proof-reading, and at the other extreme there is in-depth and extensive peer-review...