Social network analysis in Geosciences: scientific collaboration between periglacial scholars in the Iberian Peninsula
This research examines the collaboration relationships between those authors affiliated to Iberian institutions and involved in periglacial studies between 2000 and 2017. The data has been extracted from the Google Scholar database and processed using Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques. A tota...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:dfe39e689f204ec3bc20c2619808bcf0 2023-05-15T16:53:52+02:00 Social network analysis in Geosciences: scientific collaboration between periglacial scholars in the Iberian Peninsula C. García-Hernández J. Ruiz-Fernández E. Serrano-Cañadas 2020-06-01 https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.3939 https://doaj.org/article/dfe39e689f204ec3bc20c2619808bcf0 en es eng spa Universidad de La Rioja 0211-6820 1697-9540 doi:10.18172/cig.3939 https://doaj.org/article/dfe39e689f204ec3bc20c2619808bcf0 undefined Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, Vol 46, Iss 1, Pp 319-339 (2020) social network analysis scientific collaboration coauthorship network periglacial studies permafrost iberian peninsula info geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.3939 2023-01-22T19:16:43Z This research examines the collaboration relationships between those authors affiliated to Iberian institutions and involved in periglacial studies between 2000 and 2017. The data has been extracted from the Google Scholar database and processed using Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques. A total of 230 scientific publications have been selected, involving 198 researchers of which 113 belong to Spanish institutions, 38 to Portuguese institutions and 47 to foreign institutions. The work carried out by the Iberian community (assembled through national groups linked to the International Permafrost Association) has considerably improved its possibilities of dissemination and citation in this period: There has been an increase in the number of publications per year, in the number of authors per publication, and in the number of publications with international collaboration. Nowadays there is a group of very productive and well-connected authors, who play an important role as intermediaries, and future prospects are good. However, 50% of the authors have a low capacity for interaction, and there is a low presence of women in the network: These imbalances should constitute the main challenges to be faced by the Iberian community in the next decade. Beyond the Iberian community of periglacial scholars, this study provides an example of methodology to be applied in other co-authorship networks in subdisciplines of the Earth Sciences, and its results are discussed in this sense. The results of this research offer valuable information for the management of scientific collaboration programs, the selection of representatives and to weigh the possibilities and needs of the Iberian network. But, especially, it presents a socioscientific framework of reference for early career scientists and makes them aware of the need to integrate themselves into a booming scientific community. Article in Journal/Newspaper International Permafrost Association permafrost Unknown Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 46 1 319 339 |
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This research examines the collaboration relationships between those authors affiliated to Iberian institutions and involved in periglacial studies between 2000 and 2017. The data has been extracted from the Google Scholar database and processed using Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques. A total of 230 scientific publications have been selected, involving 198 researchers of which 113 belong to Spanish institutions, 38 to Portuguese institutions and 47 to foreign institutions. The work carried out by the Iberian community (assembled through national groups linked to the International Permafrost Association) has considerably improved its possibilities of dissemination and citation in this period: There has been an increase in the number of publications per year, in the number of authors per publication, and in the number of publications with international collaboration. Nowadays there is a group of very productive and well-connected authors, who play an important role as intermediaries, and future prospects are good. However, 50% of the authors have a low capacity for interaction, and there is a low presence of women in the network: These imbalances should constitute the main challenges to be faced by the Iberian community in the next decade. Beyond the Iberian community of periglacial scholars, this study provides an example of methodology to be applied in other co-authorship networks in subdisciplines of the Earth Sciences, and its results are discussed in this sense. The results of this research offer valuable information for the management of scientific collaboration programs, the selection of representatives and to weigh the possibilities and needs of the Iberian network. But, especially, it presents a socioscientific framework of reference for early career scientists and makes them aware of the need to integrate themselves into a booming scientific community. |
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Social network analysis in Geosciences: scientific collaboration between periglacial scholars in the Iberian Peninsula |
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