The Scaling Relationship between Citation-Based Performance and Scientific Collaboration in Natural Sciences
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to extend our knowledge about the power-law relationship between citation-based performance and collaboration patterns for papers of the Natural Sciences domain. We analyzed 829,924 articles that received 16,490,346 citations. The number of articles published through collaboration account for 89%. The citation-based performance and collaboration patterns exhibit a power-law correlation with a scaling exponent of 1.20, SD=0.07. We found that the Matthew effect is stronger for collaborated papers than for single-authored. This means that the citations to a field research areas articles increase 2.30 times each time it doubles the number of collaborative papers. The scaling exponent for the power-law relationship for single-authored papers was 0.85, SD=0.11. The citations to a field research area single-authored articles increase 1.89 times each time the research area doubles the number of non-collaborative papers.
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@article{arxiv.1510.05266,
title = {The Scaling Relationship between Citation-Based Performance and Scientific Collaboration in Natural Sciences},
author = {Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo and J. Sylvan Katz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05266},
year = {2017}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables