Co-authorship is one of the most tangible and well documented forms of research collaboration. Data mining techniques and social network analysis can be used to extract and study these collaborations. Social network analysis provides an insight into the connections between groups of individuals. It is these connections that channel flow of information and the sharing of knowledge. In order to u...

Research collaboration plays an important role in scientific productivity and academic innovation. Multi-institutional collaboration has become a vital approach for integrating multidisciplinary resources and expertise to enhance biomedical research. There is an increasing need for analyzing the effect of multi-institutional research collaboration. In this paper, we present a collaboration anal...

the paper explores the research productivity of the journal vikalpa for the    period of 2003-2012, which is indexed in the ebsco on-line database. various quality aspects of the 437 research articles published in the period were studied. the study elaborates on various aspects of the journal such as year wise distribution of the articles, growth rate of articles, authorship pattern, and degree...

<span lang="EN-US">Scientific research is currently considered one of the key factors in development our life. It plays a significant role managing business, study, and work more conveniently. One important aspects when it comes to scientific level collaboration among researchers/disciplines. The between two different disciplines contributes obtaining reliable solutions for everyday issue...

International collaboration on research publications is increasingly evaluated as part of a raft of performance measures. Levels of international co-authorship have increased substantially over the last few decades and vary substantially by research field and publication type; however, these variations are not typically accounted for by international collaboration indicators. In this research-i...

AbstttictIncreased co-authorship in schistosomiasis has been shown to be associated with research funding. The small core of grantees is highly prolific. Furthermore, strong evidence points to the existence of two types of co-authors, namely, the globals who appear to co-author with individuals outside their own group, and the locals who are limited in their formal collaboration. The globals co...

By publishing papers together, academic authors can form a co-authorship network, modeling the collaboration among them. This paper presents a data-driven study by crawling and analyzing the vast majority of author profiles of Google Scholar. We make the following major contributions: (1) We present a demographic analysis and get an informative overview of the authors from different aspects, su...