Abstract More than half of a century has passed since paradigmatic change in the scientific endeavour took place: from science that advanced through discursive interchange geographically dispersed research findings and reflections, to highly interconnected collaborative efforts transcend borders (Wagner & Leydesdorff, 2005, Research Policy, 34 :1608–1618). These new “invisible colleges” hav...

This article analyzes the existing collaboration networks in the Brazilian scientific output in Evolutionary Biology, considering articles published during the period from 2000 to 2012 in journals indexed by Web of Science. The methodology integrates bibliometric techniques and Social Network Analysis resources to describe the growth of Brazilian scientific output and understand the levels, dyn...

Introduction. We report an investigation on collaboration practices in research papers published in the most prestigious English-medium astrophysics journals. Method. We propose an evaluation method based on three numerical indicators to study and compare, in absolute terms, three different types of collaboration (international, national and local) and authors' mobility on the basis of co-autho...

In 2008, a Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences working group chaired by Professor Emilio Bossi issued a "Memorandum on scientific integrity and the handling of misconduct in the scientific context", together with a paper setting out principles and procedures concerning integrity in scientific research. In the Memorandum, unjustified claims of authorship in scientific publications are referred ...

In this study, we propose and validate social networks based theoretical model for exploring scholars’ collaboration (co-authorship) network properties associated with their citation-based research performance (i.e., gindex). Using structural holes theory, we focus on how a scholar’s egocentric network properties of density, efficiency and constraint within the network associate with their scho...

We analyse the co-authorship and publication patterns of 863 mainstream WoS papers in the field of Chemistry co-authored between Mexican and French institutions from 1984 to 2013 with the purpose of identifying and characterizing the dynamics of sustained collaborative research partnerships in the field between the two countries. From a normalized set of the most productive authors with ≥ 5 co-...

Background and Objective: Co-authorship on writing articles is one of the indicators of reliability in scientific articles. Due to the lack of information regarding to the rate of participation of the authors of articles in the ” Iranian Journal of Pathology” this research with the aim of the survey of collaborative coefficients of article authors in this Journal  from 2006 to 2012 was performe...

Research centres in low- and middle-income countries are routinely circumvented the production of cross-cultural research on human behaviour. Where local contributions made, collaboration is rarely equitable often uncredited co-authorship. Efforts to decolonize social sciences will remain inadequate until these norms overturned.