The Impact of country development on the visibility of co-authorship

Document Type : مقالات پژوهشی

Authors

• mohammad reza davarpanah
• reza adamian

10.22067/riis.v2i2.11015

Abstract

Purpose: The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of country development on scientific collaboration and visibility.

Method: Based on the purpose the study we used scientometric method as our research methodology. The statistical population of the research included co-authored articles in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) indexed in ISI from 2005 to 2006, along with their citations during 2005-2010.

Findings: The results indicated that developing countries co-authored articles with developed countries were cited at an average of 11.29 but developing countries co-authored articles with developed countries were cited at an average of 5.18. Also, there was a positive relation between the number of collaborating countries in articles resulted from scientific collaboration and their citation rate. In investigating the significant differences among scientific collaboration patterns in developed and developing countries, it was seen that the territorial or continental scientific collaboration rate in developed countries is 3 times more than developing countries and developed countries scientific collaboration with other developed countries was 11 times more than developing countries scientific collaboration with other developing countries. This showed that researchers in developed countries ` had a high tendency to collaborate with their colleagues in developed countries, but there was no relation between trans-territorial and national scientific collaboration in developed and developing countries. The average citation rate of international co-authorship articles was more than 1.8 times of the average citation rate of national co-authorship articles. The average citation rate of co-authored articles in developed countries was 2 times more than of the average citation rate of co-authored articles in developing countries. The results showed that international collaboration, especially collaboration with developed countries, increased the citation rate in developing countries articles; There was significant differences among scientific collaboration patterns in developed and developing countries. It is recommended that the increase of international collaboration increases the international visibility of the articles.

Keywords

• Visibility
• co-authorship
• developing countries
• Institute for Scientific Information
• ISI

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