Co-authorship and bibliographic coupling network effects on citations.

ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the effects of the co-authorship and bibliographic coupling networks on the citations received by scientific articles. It expands prior research that limited its focus on the position of co-authors and incorporates the effects of the use of knowledge sources within articles: references. By creating a network on the basis of shared references, we propose a way to understand whether an article bridges among extant strands of literature and infer the size of its research community and its embeddedness. Thus, we map onto the article--our unit of analysis--the metrics of authors' position in the co-authorship network and of the use of knowledge on which the scientific article is grounded. Specifically, we adopt centrality measures--degree, betweenneess, and closeness central

SUBMITTER: Biscaro C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4049820 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature