Does international collaboration yield a higher citation potential for US scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary Journals?

Generally, multicountry papers receive more citations than single-country ones. In this contribution, we examine if this rule also applies to American scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary journals. Concretely, we compare the citations received by American scientists in Nature, S...

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Published inJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 67; no. 4; p. 1009
Main Authors Rousseau, Ronald, Ding, Jielan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.04.2016
Subjects
Citation analysis
Collaboration
Cooperation
Interdisciplinary aspects
International
Publishing
Scientists
Studies
United States > US
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Summary:Generally, multicountry papers receive more citations than single-country ones. In this contribution, we examine if this rule also applies to American scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary journals. Concretely, we compare the citations received by American scientists in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). It is shown that, statistically, American scientists publishing in Nature and Science do not benefit from international collaboration. This statement also holds for communicated submissions, but not for direct and for contributed submissions, to PNAS.
ISSN:2330-1635
2330-1643