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arXiv 1107.5469physics.soc-phcs.DLcs.SI
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引用的小世界?合作网络对引文实践的影响

A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices

Matthew L. Wallace, Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras

摘要:

本文探讨作者的接近度,他们引用的共同作者网络中使用的分离度,基本上是使用协作网络,以扩大自我引用的概念。虽然直接自引(包括引用和被引用论文的共同作者)的比例在自然科学(10%的引用)和社会科学(20%)的时间和专业之间相对恒定,但对于共同作者网络成员的作者的引用却不能这么说。随着时间的推移,领域和趋势之间的差异不仅在于定义协作网络的大规模拓扑结构的合著程度,而且还在于给定学科内的引用实践,通过定义在协作网络内给定距离处引用的倾向来计算。总的来说,除了直接的自我引用外,几乎没有倾向于引用合作网络中附近的人。通过分析这些社会参考,我们的本地合作网络的科学领域内的知识生产的社会资本的特征。这些结果对大多数类型的引文分析常见的偏见的长期争论,以及对过去50年来跨科学学科的引文实践的理解具有影响。此外,我们的研究结果具有重要的实际意义的可用性的“手臂的距离”的专家评审的赠款申请和手稿。

英文摘要:

This paper examines the proximity of authors to those they cite using degrees of separation in a co-author network, essentially using collaboration networks to expand on the notion of self-citations. While the proportion of direct self-citations (including co-authors of both citing and cited papers) is relatively constant in time and across specialties in the natural sciences (10% of citations) and the social sciences (20%), the same cannot be said for citations to authors who are members of the co-author network. Differences between fields and trends over time lie not only in the degree of co-authorship which defines the large-scale topology of the collaboration network, but also in the referencing practices within a given discipline, computed by defining a propensity to cite at a given distance within the collaboration network. Overall, there is little tendency to cite those nearby in the collaboration network, excluding direct self-citations. By analyzing these social references, we characterize the social capital of local collaboration networks in terms of the knowledge production within scientific fields. These results have implications for the long-standing debate over biases common to most types of citation analysis, and for understanding citation practices across scientific disciplines over the past 50 years. In addition, our findings have important practical implications for the availability of 'arm's length' expert reviewers of grant applications and manuscripts.

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