www.eafe-fish.eu Scientific Networks and Individual Performance in Fisheries and Aquaculture Research
Scientific research in Aquaculture and Fisheries, as in other fields, has become a highly specialised enterprise that could not function without the collaboration of the geographically dispersed specialists. Using the ISI Web of Science database of all publications related to Fisheries and Aquacultu...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.177.600 http://www.univ-brest.fr/gdr-amure/eafe/eafe_conf/2007/linda%20_seidel_lass_eafe2007.pdf |
| Summary: | Scientific research in Aquaculture and Fisheries, as in other fields, has become a highly specialised enterprise that could not function without the collaboration of the geographically dispersed specialists. Using the ISI Web of Science database of all publications related to Fisheries and Aquaculture for the last 15 years, we investigate the collaboration pattern of scientists publishing in that field. Co-authorship of academic publications is a strong expression of social linkage in science and will therefore be used as an indicator of collaborative research. By means of Social Network Analysis, the performance of researchers is measured not only according to their numeric output of publications, but also to the number and characteristics of their collaborators. Using the address information of all publications, we transfer the performance of individual researchers to the institutional level and compile a list of high-performing research institutions for the EU15, Norway and Iceland. Aggregation of co-authored publications to the country level shows the collaboration pattern in European aquaculture and fisheries research. |
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