Leila Tahmooresnejad, Catherine Beaudry and Seyed Reza Mirnezami
Article (2021)
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Abstract
This paper studies the relationship between the position of individual scientists within co-authorship networks and their scientific performance. Using co-authorship data from African scientists in the Health and Medical Sciences within a timespan of 15 years (2000–2015), we characterize the collaboration networks and calculate centrality measures for each scientist to explore how scientific production and impact can be associated with their position within the network. Our findings reveal that authors who occupy a better position within their network and are deemed to actively collaborate with others also have a higher research impact. In this regard, South African scientists do not differ from those in the rest of the world.
Uncontrolled Keywords
co-authorship; social network analysis; research impact; Africa
Subjects: | 1600 Industrial engineering > 1600 Industrial engineering |
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Department: | Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering |
Funders: | International Develoopment and Research Center (IDRC), Robert Bosch Stiftung grant |
Grant number: | 107987-001, 11.5F081.0006.0 |
PolyPublie URL: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/48351/ |
Journal Title: | Science and Public Policy (vol. 48, no. 4) |
Publisher: | Oxford Academic |
DOI: | 10.1093/scipol/scab030 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab030 |
Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2023 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2025 04:57 |
Cite in APA 7: | Tahmooresnejad, L., Beaudry, C., & Mirnezami, S. R. (2021). The study of network effects on research impact in Africa. Science and Public Policy, 48(4), 462-473. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab030 |
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