A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices.
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)...
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| description | 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 references) 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. These results are interpreted in terms of small-scale structure, field-specific citation practices, and the value of local co-author networks for the production of knowledge and for the accumulation of symbolic capital. Given the various levels of integration between co-authors, our findings shed light on the question of the availability of 'arm's length' expert reviewers of grant applications and manuscripts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-69b7f91c98ab41e892f62b552200374f2022-12-22T01:30:10ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0173e3333910.1371/journal.pone.0033339A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices.Matthew L WallaceVincent LarivièreYves GingrasThis 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 references) 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. These results are interpreted in terms of small-scale structure, field-specific citation practices, and the value of local co-author networks for the production of knowledge and for the accumulation of symbolic capital. Given the various levels of integration between co-authors, our findings shed light on the question of the availability of 'arm's length' expert reviewers of grant applications and manuscripts.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3296690?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Matthew L Wallace Vincent Larivière Yves Gingras A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices. PLoS ONE |
| title | A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices. |
| title_full | A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices. |
| title_fullStr | A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices. |
| title_short | A small world of citations? The influence of collaboration networks on citation practices. |
| title_sort | small world of citations the influence of collaboration networks on citation practices |
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