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Collaborative Characteristics and Networks of National, Institutional and Individual Contributors Using Highly Cited Articles in Environmental Engineering in Science Citation Index Expanded


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1 Department of Information Resources Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, No. 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China
2 Trend Research Centre, Asia University, Taichung County - 41354, Taiwan, Province of China
 

Collaboration has strongly intensified recently and its characteristics are attractive and multi-dimensional. This study explored the trends, characteristics and citation impact of collaboration as well as collaboration networks for the macrolevel of country, the mesolevel of institution and the microlevel of author, using highly cited articles in environmental engineering (EE) category of the Science Citation Index Expanded. A data visualization and manipulation software, Gephi 0.9.1 was used to visualize the relationships of collaboration among authors, institutions and countries. Although collaboration in general is known to be beneficial in many research areas, collaboration is not beneficial for highly cited research in the EE field. Single author, single country and single institution articles were more visible than articles involving international collaboration, inter-institutional collaboration and individual collaboration. There were certain group collaborations, which played an important role in publishing highly cited articles in the EE field.

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Collaboration, Co-Authorship, Environmental Engineering, Highly Cited Articles, Y-Index.
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Authors

Hui-Zhen Fu
Department of Information Resources Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, No. 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China
Yuh-Shan Ho
Trend Research Centre, Asia University, Taichung County - 41354, Taiwan, Province of China

Abstract


Collaboration has strongly intensified recently and its characteristics are attractive and multi-dimensional. This study explored the trends, characteristics and citation impact of collaboration as well as collaboration networks for the macrolevel of country, the mesolevel of institution and the microlevel of author, using highly cited articles in environmental engineering (EE) category of the Science Citation Index Expanded. A data visualization and manipulation software, Gephi 0.9.1 was used to visualize the relationships of collaboration among authors, institutions and countries. Although collaboration in general is known to be beneficial in many research areas, collaboration is not beneficial for highly cited research in the EE field. Single author, single country and single institution articles were more visible than articles involving international collaboration, inter-institutional collaboration and individual collaboration. There were certain group collaborations, which played an important role in publishing highly cited articles in the EE field.

Keywords


Collaboration, Co-Authorship, Environmental Engineering, Highly Cited Articles, Y-Index.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi3%2F410-421