Are international co-publications an indicator for quality of scientific research?
(2008) In Scientometrics 74(3). p.361-377- Abstract
This article deals with the role of internationally co-authored papers (co-publications). Specifically, we compare, within a data-set of German research units, citation and co-publication indicators as a proxy for the unobserved quality dimension of scientific research. In that course we will also deal with the question whether both citations and co-publications are considerably related. Our results suggest that, although there is a strong partial correlation between citations and co-publications within a multivariate setting, we cannot use reasonably normalised co-publication indicators as an alternative proxy for quality. Thus, concerning quality assessment, there remains a primer on citation analysis.
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- Schmoch, Ulrich and Schubert, Torben LU
- publishing date
- 2008-03
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- indicator, scientific research, co-publication, quality control
- in
- Scientometrics
- volume
- 74
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Akademiai Kiado
- external identifiers
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- scopus:43149096891
- ISSN
- 0138-9130
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11192-007-1818-5
- language
- English
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- 8b7d986f-0f85-4149-a677-1bf9198c9fb6
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