Co-authorship networks and research impact in large research facilities: benchmarking internal reports and bibliometric databases

• Grant number: 16/09915-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 15, 2016
• End date: January 14, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Peter Alexander Bleinroth Schulz
• Grantee: Fábio Salomão Vinco e Silva
• Supervisor: Ed Noijons
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas (FCA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Limeira , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/25787-6 - Study of the scientific impact of a synchrotron laboratory: coauthorship networks and their differences between external and internal users, BP.IC

Abstract

The investigation of co-authorship networks provides interesting insights of research patterns and how their impact is reflected by bibliometric indicators. Investigating the correlations between such indicators and network parameters may provide also insights of the efficiency of different collaborative structures. Within this general view, focusing on collaboration patterns at large scale research facilities is of great interest with the increasing number of these structures around the world oriented to different research subjects. Furthermore, in spite of the growing relevance of such facilities, related scientometric studies are still very incipient. (AU)