The role of guarantor in scientific collaboration: The neighbourhood matters

Rodrigo Sánchez-Jiménez, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote and Félix Moya-Anegón

Journal of Informetrics, 2017, vol. 11, issue 1, 103-116

Abstract: Output resulting from institutional collaboration has been widely used to create performance indicators, but focusing on research guarantors has recently provided a way to recognize the salient role of certain scientific actors. This paper elaborates on this approach to characterize the performance of an institution as guarantor based not only on its guarantor output but also on the importance of the institutions with which it collaborates. Accepting that guarantorship implies in some way acknowledgement of a prominent role on the part of the collaborating institutions, and that this recognition will be more important the more important the collaborating institutions, the paper describes two approaches to measuring this acknowledgement and discusses their effectiveness in helping to recognize prominent scientific actors by using a case study in the Library and Information Science field. The results show a high assortativity in scientific collaboration relationships, confirming the original hypothesis that important institutions tend to grant prestigious institutions the recognition of their relevance.

Keywords: Research guarantors; Scientific collaboration; Acknowledgement as guarantor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.11.004

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