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A study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in Iran between 2005 and 2009

BACKGROUND: Scientific collaboration is among the most important subjects in scientometrics, and many studies have investigated this concept to this day. The goal of the current study is investigation of scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns of researchers in the field of library and i...

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Autores principales: Siamaki, Saba, Geraei, Ehsan, Zare- Farashbandi, Firoozeh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250365
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139681
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author Siamaki, Saba
Geraei, Ehsan
Zare- Farashbandi, Firoozeh
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description BACKGROUND: Scientific collaboration is among the most important subjects in scientometrics, and many studies have investigated this concept to this day. The goal of the current study is investigation of scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns of researchers in the field of library and information science in Iran between years 2005 and 2009. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The current study uses scientometrics method. The statistical population consists of 942 documents published in Iranian library and information science journals between years 2005 and 2009. Collaboration coefficient, collaboration index (CI), and degree of collaboration (DC) were used for data analysis. FINDINGS: The findings showed that among 942 investigated documents, 506 documents (53.70%) was created by one individual researcher and 436 documents (46.30%) were the result of collaboration between two or more researchers. Also, the highest rank of different authorship patterns belonged to National Journal of Librarianship and Information Organization (code H). CONCLUSION: The average collaboration coefficient for the library and information science researchers in the investigated time frame was 0.23. The closer this coefficient is to 1, the higher is the level of collaboration between authors, and a coefficient near zero shows a tendency to prefer individual articles. The highest collaboration index with an average of 1.92 authors per paper was seen in year 1388. The five year collaboration index in library and information science in Iran was 1.58, and the average degree of collaboration between researchers in the investigated papers was 0.46, which shows that library and information science researchers have a tendency for co-authorship. However, the co-authorship had increased in recent years reaching its highest number in year 1388. The researchers’ collaboration coefficient also shows relative increase between years 1384 and 1388. National Journal of Librarianship and Information Organization has the highest rank among all the investigated journals based on collaboration coefficient, collaboration index (CI), and degree of collaboration (DC).
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spelling pubmed-41650922014-09-23 A study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in Iran between 2005 and 2009 Siamaki, Saba Geraei, Ehsan Zare- Farashbandi, Firoozeh J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Scientific collaboration is among the most important subjects in scientometrics, and many studies have investigated this concept to this day. The goal of the current study is investigation of scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns of researchers in the field of library and information science in Iran between years 2005 and 2009. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The current study uses scientometrics method. The statistical population consists of 942 documents published in Iranian library and information science journals between years 2005 and 2009. Collaboration coefficient, collaboration index (CI), and degree of collaboration (DC) were used for data analysis. FINDINGS: The findings showed that among 942 investigated documents, 506 documents (53.70%) was created by one individual researcher and 436 documents (46.30%) were the result of collaboration between two or more researchers. Also, the highest rank of different authorship patterns belonged to National Journal of Librarianship and Information Organization (code H). CONCLUSION: The average collaboration coefficient for the library and information science researchers in the investigated time frame was 0.23. The closer this coefficient is to 1, the higher is the level of collaboration between authors, and a coefficient near zero shows a tendency to prefer individual articles. The highest collaboration index with an average of 1.92 authors per paper was seen in year 1388. The five year collaboration index in library and information science in Iran was 1.58, and the average degree of collaboration between researchers in the investigated papers was 0.46, which shows that library and information science researchers have a tendency for co-authorship. However, the co-authorship had increased in recent years reaching its highest number in year 1388. The researchers’ collaboration coefficient also shows relative increase between years 1384 and 1388. National Journal of Librarianship and Information Organization has the highest rank among all the investigated journals based on collaboration coefficient, collaboration index (CI), and degree of collaboration (DC). Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4165092/ /pubmed/25250365 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139681 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Siamaki S. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full A study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in Iran between 2005 and 2009
title_fullStr A study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in Iran between 2005 and 2009
title_full_unstemmed A study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in Iran between 2005 and 2009
title_short A study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in Iran between 2005 and 2009
title_sort study on scientific collaboration and co-authorship patterns in library and information science studies in iran between 2005 and 2009
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250365
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139681
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