Analysis of co-authorship patterns at the individual level

• Autor(a) principal: GLÄNZEL, Wolfgang
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Transinformação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/transinfo/article/view/6110

Publication activity, citation impact and communication patterns, in general, change in the course of a scientist’s career. Mobilityand radical changes in a scientist’s research environment or profile are among the most spectacular factors that have effect onindividual collaboration patterns. Although bibliometrics at this level should be applied with the utmost care, characteristic patternsof an individual scientist’s research collaboration and changes in these in the course of a career can be well depicted usingbibliometric methods. A wide variety of indicators and network tools are chosen to follow up the evolution and to visualise and toquantify collaboration and performance profiles of individual researchers. These methods are, however, designed to supplementexpert-opinion based assessment and other qualitative assessments, and should not be used as stand-alone evaluationtools. This study presents part of the results published in an earlier study by Zhang and Glänzel (2012)4 as well as new applications of these methods.