Evaluating Scholars Based on their Academic Collaboration Activities: The RC-Index and CC-Index for Quantifying Collaboration Activities of Researchers and Scientific Communities

Alireza Abbasi, Jörn Altmann and Junseok Hwang
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Junseok Hwang: Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP), Seoul National University

No 200915, TEMEP Discussion Papers from Seoul National University; Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP)

Abstract: Although there are many studies for quantifying the academic performance of researchers, such as measuring the scientific performance based on the number of publications, there are no studies about quantifying the collaboration activities of researchers. This study addresses this shortcoming by examining the collaboration network structure of researchers, the number of collaborations with other researchers, and the productivity index of co-authors. Based on the measures, two new indices, the RC-Index and CC-Index, are proposed for quantifying the collaboration activities of researchers and scientific communities. After applying these indices on a data set generated from publication list of five schools of information systems, we discuss the usefulness of these indices.

Keywords: Citation index; productivity; co-author relationships; performance evaluation; productivity; h-index; research collaboration; empirical study; indexing; index numbers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 D80 D85 L25 M12 M21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2009-09, Revised 2009-09
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Published in Scientometrics, vol.83, no.1, pp.1-13, Springer, April 2010

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